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What Holbrooke's rough cartography captured was nothing less than the changing face of the battle for the heartland of Bosnia, which in recent weeks has seen the Bosnian Serbs driven back by the loosely coordinated armies of the country's Croat-Muslim federation capitalizing on NATO's bombing campaign. The results of that offensive--demarcated on Holbrooke's map--produced a strategic shift on the ground that, working with the grain of U.S. diplomacy, opened the most inviting window of opportunity for peace that Bosnia has seen in years. By the time the Bosnian Serbs had withdrawn most...
...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-Croat "entities" inside Bosnia. "It's an awkward structure," concedes a State Department official. "But it's a hell of an improvement over killing people...
...weeks ago, the Serb, Croat and Bosnian foreign ministers agreed to peace "principles" that call for two ethnic "entities" inside Bosnia. The Serb share would be 49% of the territory, and the federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats would get 51%. This split has been viewed by Pentagon analysts as unworkable because the Bosnian Serbs were reported to hold 70% of Bosnia's land. But the tide of war has recently been going so badly for the Serbs that the previous estimate...
While the Serbs, Croats and Muslims have all accepted the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its present borders, they have also approved dividing it in some undefined way into "two entities," one a Bosnian Serb republic and the other the Muslim-Croat federation. According to the statement of principles, the split will be based on the long-standing proposal put forward by the team of international negotiators called the Contact Group: 49% of Bosnia to go to the Serbs and 51% to the existing federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats...
Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke will meet with Croat President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic in Zagreb on Tuesday. He is expected to discuss reining in the combined Muslim-Croat forces, which have made significant territorial gains in northwest and central Bosnia during the past week. U.N. officials now say Muslims and Croats control more than half of the country and are still pressing forward. Although Holbrooke's peace plan calls for a cease-fire agreement by September 25, Stiglmayer reports that Bosnia's Foreign Minister Muhamed Sacirbey told reporters today that the fighting would continue, since...