Word: chernomyrdin
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...more than a little wobbly, peace is threatening to break out in the Balkans. Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and European Union mediator President Martti Ahtisaari were in Belgrade Wednesday after finally reaching an agreement, in marathon talks with U.S. deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott, on a joint peace plan to present to President Slobodan Milosevic. The talks almost broke down earlier with the Russians exasperated at what a spokesman described as Washington?s last-minute proposal of changes to the Bonn Accord "which were not included or agreed earlier." But the envoys appear to have sufficiently ironed out their...
...stops its bombing; the nature of NATO involvement in the U.N.-authorized peacekeeping force for Kosovo; and the size of the Yugoslavian military presence allowed to remain in the province. One indicator of the progress of peace talks is Ahtisaari's schedule. He's indicated that he'll accompany Chernomyrdin to Belgrade Wednesday if there's sufficient agreement Tuesday to make "to make a joint trip to Belgrade a sensible prospect." The answer to that question may now be determined as much by pollsters as by diplomats...
...Mark Thompson. "Now it's a question of what both sides think they can get away with domestically -- of how much President Clinton will be able to compromise while still making the result appear to be a victory." The three key players in the diplomatic endgame -- Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin, U.S. deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott and European Union mediator President Martti Ahtisaari of Finland -- met in Bonn Tuesday to consider new Russian peace proposals, after a night of heavy air raids in which Belgrade claims NATO bombs killed 26 civilians in two separate incidents...
...indictment of Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal may complicate diplomatic efforts to end the Kosovo conflict, but it's not as if those efforts had been on the verge of a breakthrough. Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin flew into Belgrade alone Friday, having been stood up once again by the European Union's mediator, Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari. After three-way talks with U.S. envoy Strobe Talbott in Moscow, Ahtisaari went instead to Germany for talks with EU president and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, although Chernomyrdin promised that he and the Finn would return to Belgrade next week. "Things...
...soldiers from Kosovo. Prominent Serb businessmen have also begun to grouse publicly about the bombing's economic impact--a sign that Milosevic's cronyocracy may be weakening. "People [in Belgrade] are beginning to look for a way out," says a senior Clinton Administration official. Now the White House hopes Chernomyrdin can show them the door...