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Yeltsin's illness cast doubts on whether he will be able to attend the scheduled meeting with the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. A decision is expected tomorrow on whether the Russians will go ahead with the summit, possibly with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin presiding if Yeltsin is unable to attend. In either case, the meeting will be largely symbolic. The move is designed to quiet Yeltsin's critics in the Russian parliament who say that Russia has been left out of peace negotiations...
American leadership made possible punishing NATO airstrikes that rocked Serb forces still reeling from Croatia's blitzkrieg, and our resolution brought President Milosevic to end support for his Bosnian clients in an effort to end U.N. sanctions against Serbia. The balance has shifted in Bosnia, and the rebel Serbs recognize that continued conflict would only worsen their position. The Serbs have responded by making their first serious overtures toward peace...
...hands are tied. Look for a lot of similar grandstanding in the next few days leading up to this meeting." Expect a number of cease-fire violations, Van Voorst says, and, from Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, threats to retake the Serb-held Eastern Slavonia region of Croatia...
...Bosnia, Croatia and the Serb-dominated Yugoslavia endorsed a preliminary plan for a new government of Bosnia, but even as the foreign ministers of the warring parties met at the U.N., their soldiers went on fighting. The leaders agreed on a 12-paragraph "statement of principles" providing for a group national presidency, a parliament, a constitutional court and "free, democratic elections." But the critical issue for any Bosnian peace, the disposition of territory, was not addressed. Even as the diplomats talked, the Bosnian army continued its offensive to retake sections of northwestern Bosnia captured by the Serbs...
...uncorked, though, numerous problems remain to be solved. A significant step in that direction takes place this Tuesday when representatives from the so-called Contact Group--Germany, France, Russia, Britain and the U.S.--meet at the U.N. in New York City with the foreign ministers of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia. Although a new map of Bosnia and Herzegovina has yet to be drawn, they are expected to announce a breakthrough in defining the complex government structure that will rule over it, if and when peace is signed. Consensus has also been reached on constitutional arrangements for the Serb and Muslim...