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While the U.S. has been prodding the Bosnian Croats and Muslims toward agreement, Moscow has been working on the Serbs. Russia's special envoy Vitali Churkin went to Belgrade to urge Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to look carefully at the Muslim-Croat federation. Churkin said he found Milosevic "flexible and constructive." That may be because the Serb leader is feeling the pinch of U.N.-enforced economic sanctions -- more than half the work force is effectively unemployed -- and fearful that Croatia, no longer preoccupied with Bosnia, might divert its armed forces to the Krajina front...
...international focus is on keeping up the diplomatic pace. American envoy Charles Redman plans to sit down with Bosnian and Croat leaders to decide how much territory they will ask the Serbs to cede and what relationship the Serbs will have with their motherland. The Bosnian Serbs have been backing away from their previous willingness to hand over enough land to provide the Muslims and Croats with 50% of the country...
Washington is trying to turn the cease-fire into a broader rapprochement. The goal, an old idea revived by Silajdzic in talks with U.S. envoy Charles Redman three weeks ago, is to join the majority Muslim government and the Bosnian Croats in a political union that would confederate with Croatia, and then seek a final settlement with Bosnia's Serbs...
...snows of Pale, a former ski resort overlooking the city. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic walked down the front steps of his headquarters in his putative capital, his shaggy hair glistening with snowflakes, to announce: "We do think the war in Sarajevo is finally over." Beside him, Russian special envoy Vitali Churkin, the catalyst for Karadzic's conversion, nodded his agreement. The Serbs, Churkin said, would withdraw their heavy weapons from the heights around Sarajevo. In return, Russia would contribute several hundred soldiers to peacekeeping forces in the area. There would be no need for NATO bombs, he argued, because...
...weeks ago, when it became apparent that last-ditch trade talks in Washington were breaking down, Hosokawa quietly dispatched a high-level envoy to head off a conflict. When that failed, he sent an even higher intermediary, Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata. But a Thursday breakfast meeting between Hata and U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor was ended abruptly by Kantor, who complained that Hata had brought nothing new. After Hosokawa arrived later that day, Hata asked for one last, late-night session. But after three more hours of talks that broke up at 4 a.m., there was still no progress...