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SARAJEVO: Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke arrived in the Bosnian capital on Thursday, less than 36 hours before the first major deadline of the Dayton Peace accord, to assess the progress of the international peacekeeping mission and to help keep the heat on the warring parties to abide by the agreement he worked so hard to win. By midnight Friday, according to the treaty, all the warring parties are to have pulled their soldiers and weapons behind cease-fire lines and released all prisoners of war. Military observers in Bosnia agree that the demilitarization is proceeding on schedule...
...would the U.S. need MPRI? The Dayton accord calls for disarmament negotiations to reduce the Bosnian Serbs' military edge over the weaker Muslim-Croat Federation. While its European allies vigorously disagree, the U.S. believes that even if arms control shrinks the Bosnian Serb arsenal, the federation will require new weaponry to ensure a military balance in the region. The accord allows arms to start flowing into the region beginning in mid-March. "We will not be able to leave unless the Bosnian government is armed and prepared to defend itself," says Democratic Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware. "That...
Last week James Pardew, the Pentagon's point man in negotiating the Dayton accord, flew to Sarajevo to urge the Bosnian government to hire MPRI or a competitor like BDM Inc. or SAIC (Science Applications International). Pardew plans to tell the Bosnians that weapons will not begin to flow into Bosnia for months, but training (assuming the Bosnians act swiftly to organize the effort) is expected to begin within a few weeks, perhaps in Croatia, U.S. officials say. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the Dayton pact, recently spoke favorably of MPRI in testimony to Congress and says...
Bowing to pressure from U.S., European and NATO authorities, Bosnian Serbs released 16 Bosnian civilians taken captive in Serb-held Sarajevo suburbs. The abductions had been a serious challenge to the Dayton peace accord, which requires that all of Sarajevo be open to civilian travel...
SARAJEVO: An expected POW exchange was put on hold when Bosnia's Muslim government balked at the last minute, delaying the planned release of more than 500 Serb prisoners of war. The move cast new doubts on the future of the Dayton peace agreement, which calls for all sides to release their prisoners by Friday. Bosnian government officals say that Serbs have not lived up to their end of the bargain by offering only to release 200 Muslim prisoners. At issue for the government are the some 24,000 Muslims unaccounted for in 3 1/2 years of Balkan war. Many...