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OHIO The Treaty of Paris. The Treaty of Ghent. The Treaty of . Dayton? Get used...
Milosevic was perhaps the cheeriest on the dais at Dayton, since by ending the war he also brought an end to the U.N.-imposed sanctions that were crushing Serbia's economy. Though he is regarded as the man who provoked the war, with his nationalist speeches and calls for a Greater Serbia in the former Yugoslavia, he was also the key to last week's peace agreement. U.S. diplomats knew his past but credited him nevertheless with pragmatism and a willingness to compromise. As the boss of Serbia, he could make decisions and cut deals on the spot...
...answer came quickly. On Thursday, Milosevic summoned the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and eight other officials to a meeting near Belgrade. There, after a full day of tough talking, Karadzic signed on to the Dayton agreement. Experts in Belgrade said the threat hanging over Karadzic was that if he refused, Milosevic could hand him over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague. The tribunal has indicted the Bosnian Serb leader, and his military commander General Ratko Mladic, for genocide and other crimes against humanity. The Dayton agreement pledges all the governments to cooperate with...
...Dayton, the biggest task was to convince the Presidents they had common interests. The U.S. negotiators and their colleagues from Britain, France, Germany and Russia tended to use very forceful persuasion. Some of the Balkan officials suspected the U.S. was using sleep-deprivation as a negotiating tool. Deadlines slipped repeatedly, and late-night meetings turned into desperate pre-dawn sessions seeking to put issues back on track and, finally, to seal the overall agreement. Tempers were frazzled, sensibilities were hurt and resentments flared. Holbrooke, who is credited with being the locomotive of the talks, operated with gradations of anger...
After three weeks of wildly seesawing talks in Dayton, Ohio, the Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia initialed a peace agreement to end the nearly four-year war in Bosnia that has killed untold thousands; a formal signing ceremony is scheduled to take place in Paris in December. Bosnian Serb leaders, who at first vehemently opposed the accord, relented after arm twisting by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The agreement, while preserving Bosnia as a single state, separates it into two entities: a Serb republic, controlling 49% of the land, and a federation of Muslims and Croats, controlling 51%. The federation...