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...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...
Nietzsche asked that one judge a man by his enemies. What then are we to say about a group of people who picture Boutros Boutros-Ghali as the Antichrist...
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali then sent a letter to the Security Council. The letter reports that the new quick-reaction brigades will become an integral part of the existing peacekeeping force and will function under the existing U.N. command structure and the mandate of neutrality that has governed ground troops and the use of air strikes. A resolution to that effect could come up in the Council as early as this week. It will mean simply that UNPROFOR will be bigger, not different...