Word: kornblum
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Despite the miserable conditions for balloting, the U.S. asserts it is better to have a sham vote than no vote at all. "There are two ways to approach the elections," says Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, John Kornblum. "You can approach them idealistically, as an exercise in pure democracy. Or you can view them as a building block in a flawed but so far very successful peace process." Some observers are less optimistic. Says Richard Holbrooke, the architect of the Dayton accords: "Suppose a reasonably free and fair election chooses people who are pledged to separatism, when...
That scared the U.S. into action. John Kornblum, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, was dispatched to the region last week to lean on Milosevic, but the Serb President has his own interests to protect. Karadzic is still popular with Bosnian Serbs, and Milosevic, who is not, would only lose ground by removing him. He may have good reason not to hand Karadzic or Mladic over to the Hague, since they are among the few potential witnesses who could confirm his own complicity in war crimes. Yet Milosevic badly needs Western economic aid and diplomatic approval...