Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assistant secretary of state, he helped to negotiate the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia. He acted as U.S. human rights envoy to Bosnia in 1995 to investigate crimes against humanity. Shattuck was also a key player in establishing the international criminal tribunals for investigating the brutal killing in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia...
...newly nominated ambassador to the U.N. doesn't balk at hopeless missions, but he doesn't always succeed either. Three years ago, he waded into the intractable war in Bosnia and crafted a cease-fire that has lasted to this day. In 1997, as President Clinton's special envoy, he stepped into the 24-year-old struggle between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus and has so far achieved no major breakthrough. Last week he gamely turned his hand to the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, the site of a festering rebellion between 1.8 million ethnic Albanians and their Serb overlords...
...even on the map. A few thousand Albanians, 80 Serb families and 250 Serb military police are surrounded by K.L.A. checkpoints. But no one there is able to tear down the K.L.A. barricades. Ambassador Hill will return this week to try to get the checkpoints cleared, and U.S. Envoy to the Balkans Robert Gelbard will continue to work on Rugova. But Holbrooke leaves Kosovo empty-handed: "I have no magic solution to offer...
...doesn't want but may be unable to avoid. In a fierce battle Wednesday, Serb forces ousted the insurgent Kosovo Liberation Army from the coal mining town of Belacevac and prepared for an onslaught on the besieged town of Kijevo -- dubbed "the most dangerous place in Europe" by U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke last week. "A full-scale Serbian offensive against the KLA will force NATO to take action against the Serbs," says TIME correspondent Douglas Waller, who last week accompanied Holbrooke on a futile peace mission in the region. "Although the Serbs could easily squash the KLA, that would trigger...
...Fighting in Kosovo intensified this week even as the U.S. envoy shuttled back and forth between the warring parties. Holbrooke left the region warning that NATO is stepping up preparations for those air strikes on the Serbs. For now, at least, Milosevic appears content to call his bluff...