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...Bosnian Serb leaders say they may call for a referendum on a proposed peace strategy, but the move is just another rejection of the Western-sponsored plan. "It's a way of shirking responsibility," says TIME's Central Europe Bureau Chief James Graff. "The people are sure to reject the plan because that's the message they are getting from their government." More critical is the next step taken by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. He has criticized the Bosnian Serbs for dismissing the latest peace plan. Milosevic has a lot to gain by ending the conflict and pushing the United...
...Serbs' rejection was a great surprise, since there was plenty in the plan for everyone to dislike. The Clinton Administration approved a partition that would award the Serbs title to towns they had purged of Muslims with violent "ethnic cleansing" -- something Washington had said it would never accept. The Bosnian government and its Croat-federation partners thought the 51% of the territory they would receive was too little. They may have said yes only because they expected the Serbs...
...their part, the Bosnian Serbs also viewed the 49% share they were allotted as too small; their troops have already captured 72% of the country. Last week they presented additional demands, including Serbian access to the Adriatic Sea, a share in governing the capital city, Sarajevo, an end to economic sanctions against Serbia proper and certain "constitutional arrangements." The last is a veiled reference to the Bosnian Serbs' call for recognition as a separate state free to merge one day into a Greater Serbia. For the Bosnian government, on the other hand, a legal unity of the state is essential...
...hopes of putting pressure on the Serbs, the contact group had floated hints of the punishment they would inflict on the naysayers. First, they warned, they could tighten economic sanctions on Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs' backers and suppliers. Second, they might expand and police the security zones around six mostly Muslim areas. Finally, as a last resort, the Bosnian government might be exempted from the international arms embargo that affects all of the former Yugoslavia but hurts the Muslims and Croats most...
Russia became the latest negotiator to abandon the Bosnian Serbs. Andrei Kozyrev, the Russian foreign minister, announced that his country would refuse to come to the aid of Bosnian Serbs if an all-out war broke out in the former Yugoslavia. Even the Serb President, Slobodan Milosevic, has warned the recalcitrant Bosnian Serbs by threatening to cut off their supplies and funding. Are the Serbs getting the point? Apparently not. They're continuing their siege of Sarajevo and their effort to drive Muslims from northeast Bosnia. "The Bosnian Serbs think they will somehow wiggle out of this just like they...