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...Balkans that the first important agreement to come out of the negotiations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio was between the two parties who are already supposed to be allies. Last Friday Secretary of State Warren Christopher presided over the signing of a pact to strengthen the Bosnian-Croat Federation that will govern slightly more than half of Bosnia and Herzegovina when an overall peace is achieved. The Bosnian Muslims and Croats spent most of 1993 and the early part of 1994 killing each other, but in March 1994, Washington brokered an alliance between them. The agreement last...
What is ahead, the mediators hope, is an agreement to end the conflict between the Bosnian-Croat alliance and the people with whom they are still at war, the Bosnian Serbs. In 20-hour-a-day rounds of negotiations, under virtual house arrest, the diplomats are struggling forward. As one Balkan delegate says, "Things are getting much more intense in here." At the end of last week the delegations were still wading through a raft of U.S.-prepared documents addressing the question of how the Bosnian Serbs can be integrated into a reconstituted Bosnia-Herzegovina...
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has signaled his willingness to exclude Bosnian-Serb "president" Radovan Karadzic and military commander Ratko Mladic from political office in the country. But he has not agreed to the Bosnian demand that they be extradited to the Hague, where they have been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Last week, in a clear signal to Milosevic, the tribunal indicted two current and one former officer of the Yugoslav army for their role in the murder of 260 non-Serbs seized at a hospital in Vukovar in November...
...question of dividing land, one problem predominates. "You can sum up the big territorial dispute now in three words," says a Pentagon official. "Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Sarajevo." Having maintained the capital through more than three years of siege, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic wants it to be unified under Bosnian control, while the Bosnian Serbs in Milosevic's delegation want it split between the Muslim-Croat alliance and themselves. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, the leader of the talks, last week pushed an American proposal to make Sarajevo a separate "federal city" outside the territory of either faction and under...
...Camp David variety: firm, fixed, accepted without reservation by all sides. At Camp David, the issues were resolved, the lines were hard, the timetables were clear. There was no papering over--and no need for anything resembling the massive ground forces promised by Clinton to implement a Bosnian agreement. Sinai needed nothing more than a token force of binocular-toting observers. It is this kind of treaty--and this kind only--that we should be aiming for at Dayton...