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...safeguard the convoys complain bitterly over the gap between their task of assuring free passage through a raging factional war zone and the means provided to achieve it. With only 13,000 troops on the ground and no air cover, "our job is becoming impossible," said Belgian General Francis Briquemont just after he asked to leave his post as commander of Bosnia six months early. The overall chief of the U.N. forces, French General Jean Cot, has been relieved of his job after quarreling publicly with Boutros-Ghali over his right to call in air strikes when troops are attacked...
...Yugoslavia. But that bloody ghost is thrusting itself to the table in Brussels. The holiday season was a particularly violent one in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with all sides violating an agreed truce and killing 106 civilians. Completely fed up with the futility of his assignment, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont resigned as commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia. French General Jean Cot, chief of ( the 30,000 blue helmets in the former Yugoslavia, spoke out about his troops' "humiliation" and compared them to "goats tied to a stake...
Citing frustration with the United Nations' continued inability to halt the massacre in Bosnia, the head of the 10,000-troop U.N. peacekeeping force there resigned his commission. Lieut. General Francis Briquemont of Belgium said, "There is a fantastic gap between all these Security Council resolutions, the will to execute those resolutions and the means available to commanders in the field." Meanwhile, Warren Zimmerman, the last U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia before it disintegrated, resigned from the State Department in disagreement with U.S. policy toward Bosnia...
...flow of aid convoys into the city. Similar commitments have gone unfulfilled in the past, but this time hard-line Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic stood next to Karadzic and said, "Everything which is agreed will be carried out." The U.N. commander in Bosnia, Belgian Lieut. General Francis Briquemont, was still skeptical. Said he: "Actions speak louder than words." On Friday he and Mladic talked for six hours at Sarajevo airport without reaching agreement on handing Serb positions on the mountains over to U.N. peacekeepers. Briquemont said he and Mladic "did not have the same concept about conditions, control...
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