Word: ghali
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...That effort eventually bore fruit in the form of several new moves, most of which were hammered out in a series of follow-up nato meetings in Brussels. Perhaps the most important change was insistence that the so-called dual-key arrangement, which gave U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali veto authority over nato air strikes, be scrapped. (Accordingly, the U.N. chief did not learn of last week's bombings until just after the air strikes began, when a note was passed to him as he dined with friends at his Manhattan residence...
...21st, the allies simply wrote off Zepa, even though it remained in Bosnian Muslim hands. Then it became clear, despite what Washington was suggesting, that the agreement reached at the London meeting was only an outline. The NATO plan contained no specifics, and U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had made no promise to delegate his control over air strikes until he heard the full details of what the alliance proposed...
...Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali cleared the way for promptNATO airstrikesifSerbs, as expected, attack the "safe area" of Gorazde. Trying to shore up fast-eroding domestic support for the Bosnian arms embargo, President Clinton declared the U.N. move "the last chance" for the international peacekeeping mission in Bosnia: "You can't go about the world saying you're going to do something and then not do it." If the House follows the Senate with a veto-proof lifting of the ban, Clinton fears the ensuing warfare will trigger a massive U.N. withdrawal requiring escort by 25,000 U.S. troops. TIME...
Flushed with this success, the Security Council then went ahead in May 1993 to designate five other safe areas: Zepa and Gorazde in the east, Tuzla and Bihac in the north, and the capital, Sarajevo. The policy was a bluff. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told the Security Council at the time he would need 34,000 soldiers to provide the enclaves with real security. The council balked and mandated only 7,600. In fact, not even that many were ever assigned to the safe areas. So the resolution approved a month later did not mention their "defense" but called...
...Security Council demanded that the Bosnian Serb army relinquish control of the "safe area" of Srebrenica. But U.N. officials conceded that there was little likelihood that peacekeepers would take offensive action to retake the area. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said he doubted that the U.N. could protect the remaining safe areas from capture by Serb troops. Security Council members are divided on how torespond to Serb aggression. France strongly advocates a military solution, using the new rapid reaction force to retake Srebrenica. But Russia is equally adamant that the U.N. should seek a diplomatic resolution, andTIME's Bruce Nelansays...