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Despite the success of the peace talks and the elation of diplomats who had worked sixteen and eighteen hour days for the last three weeks, Christopher predicted that an "immense effort" will be required to implement the accord. That sentiment was echoed by Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, who spearheaded the team which brought the parties to the negotiating table and who had not spoken publicly since the negotiations began on November 1. "We started fourteen weeks ago. It seemed like 14 years ago," said Holbrooke. The veteran diplomat admitted that the enmities among the parties were "still...
...Instead of placing the 1,000 infantry troops under NATO command, an option unacceptable to Russia after more than four decades of cold war opposition to the alliance, the Russian soldiers would be under American command. However, American orders would be subject to approval by Russian subordinates. A nato diplomat described the unusual arrangement as "a fig leaf...
...senior diplomat from Paulau was staying at the Super 8 Motel on Governor's Island for $55 per night during the U.N. anniversary weekend. Clinton's room cost 120 times that price. There is essentially nothing wrong with this, as long as we can afford it morally, meaning that money for hotel rooms does not take funding away from social service programs. America is a land of opportunity and it is a bastion for intellectual debate...
Over the course of the last six months, several events occurred that made the peace talks possible. First of all, after Muslim "safe areas" had fallen to Serbs in July, President Clinton concluded that what a diplomat calls his "muddle through" policy had been a disaster. The Administration thus became more forceful about finding an answer. Then there was a crucial meeting in London that resulted in a shift of authority on the ground from the U.N. to NATO. Finally in August, the Croats launched a scorching offensive on the Serbs in the Krajina region, and the Croat-Bosnian federation...
Serbs use the term "to get Holbrooked" to mean being subjected to the diplomat's badgering; Holbrooke's staff jokes that the Serbs agreed to a cease-fire just to get him to shut up for a while. Nonetheless, the approach paid off in a lightning series of agreements: Aug. 30, Milosevic announced he had the Bosnian Serbs' accord to negotiate for them; Sept. 8, broad settlement was reached on constitutional principles for a new Bosnia; Sept. 14, Bosnian Serbs agreed to withdraw heavy weapons from around Sarajevo and allow U.N. access; Oct. 5, a cease-fire agreement that seemed...