Word: carringtons
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...Balkan war has produced as many broken promises as broken bodies. Though the warring parties agreed to begin new talks next week in Geneva, some of those closest to the crisis are giving up hope. Britain's Lord Carrington, the European Community negotiator, resigned after a year of fruitless labor -- including more than 30 cease-fires, all broken. And George D. Kenney, a career diplomat who heads the State Department's Yugoslavia desk, resigned to protest America's failure to act decisively against Serbian "genocide." The London conference, he said, was "a charade...
...only a palliative. They do not end the siege of Sarajevo or the Serbian occupation of about two-thirds of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serbs make up less than a third of the population. A political settlement is still out of sight, but Britain's tireless Lord Carrington, the European Community's mediator, returned to Sarajevo last week in a futile attempt to restart the stalled peace talks...
Yugoslavia is exactly the kind of conflict that collective security was supposed to address: small, isolated, manageable, involving none of the great powers. Yet as Lord Carrington, mediator for another would-be agency of collective security (the European Community), admitted, "It is very difficult to see what can be done while they go on fighting...
...Lord Carrington, the European Community's designated mediator, is not alone, however, when he insists that Milosevic bears most, but by no means all, of the blame. The Serb leader may have summoned the nationalist genie, but it was a spirit just waiting to be uncorked from its tightly capped bottle. Throughout a 74-year existence, Yugoslavia has been a powder keg of ethnic, national and religious hatreds that go back for centuries. The country that is now vanishing was an artificial creation of conflicting cultures, patched together in the wake of two world wars. Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats...
Although a cease-fire arranged two weeks ago has been repeatedly violated, the E.C. tried again. Its chief negotiator, Britain's Lord Carrington, flew to Sarajevo and worked out another truce among Bosnia's Muslims, Croats and Serbs and the federal army. Leaders of the warring groups promised to observe the cease-fire and reopen negotiations, but such pledges in the past have gone unfulfilled...