Word: bosnia
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...before NATO begins its eastward expansion. With the Russian Foreign Minister taking an increasingly hard line towards expansion, Clinton laid several concessions out on the table. Among them were a charter to give Russian more participation in NATO proceedings, joint peacekeeping operations similar to those in Bosnia and promises that NATO would not deploy troops in substantial numbers in newly admitted states. But because none of the proposals addressed one of Russia's most coveted demands, a document legally binding the country to NATO, Primakov left unsatisfied. Emerging from the White House, he stated flatly that "Russia will not change...
...HAGUE: For a moral victory, it was a bittersweet one. Denounced worldwide as the thugs behind the bulk of Bosnia's war crimes, Bosnian Serbs Tuesday were cast as the victims, detailing horrific scenes of gang rape, torture and murder at the hands of Muslim a nd Croatian prison officials for a hushed United Nations tribunal. The trial of three Muslims and one Croat is the first collective war crimes trial since the end of World War II and the first to judge rape as a war crime. Seventy-six witnesses will make the trip from Yugoslavia to testify before...
...time Clinton was safely re-elected and considering his choices for his new team, he had learned to trust his instincts on foreign policy, thanks in part to successful interventions in Bosnia and Haiti. "He wanted the chemistry to be such that he would be his own chief policy designer," says a White House insider, "and that he would have people who would carry out his vision...
Albright is lucky to be gardening at a moment of relative tranquillity. While Warren Christopher had to cope at once with second-tier crises like Bosnia, Haiti and Somalia, Albright is free to focus on the prime challenges to American security ahead: attaining a democratic, capitalistic Russia and handling a rich, restless China as it aspires to superpower status...
...spots, with guns if necessary. But her approach to using force has never been set in stone. She opposed the Gulf War and now says she was wrong. She pushed to capture Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, but has been sobered by that debacle. She advocated "assertive multilateralism" in Bosnia, which meant joining forces with the U.N. to impose a peace, but when that fuzzy "ism" became the butt of jokes, she dropped it. What's less clear is where the lessons of Munich next apply. "I would never recommend that the President of the U.S. use force lightly...