Word: nato
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...effort will come with strings attached. A key condition, senior U.S. officials told Time, requires Bosnia to sever all its military and intelligence links with Iran. Ejup Ganic, the federation Vice President, gave Time official confirmation that Bosnia had received arms from Iran, bringing them through gaps in the nato no-fly zone. "What we received from Iran," he says, "it's kind of a science-fiction solution. You cannot load a ship with ammunition and bring it in a normal way." But Ganic won't quibble about cutting Iranian ties now. "You bring us stuff," he says...
Bowing to pressure from U.S., European and NATO authorities, Bosnian Serbs released 16 Bosnian civilians taken captive in Serb-held Sarajevo suburbs. The abductions had been a serious challenge to the Dayton peace accord, which requires that all of Sarajevo be open to civilian travel...
SARAJEVO: In the worst attack since the October 12 truce in Bosnia, one man was killed and at least 19 others wounded when a grenade exploded in a Sarajevo street. A NATO official said the grenade was launched from the Serb-held suburb of Grbavica. The grenade struck a streetcar and tore a foot-wide hole in its roof as it was traveling down the Sarajevo's main boulevard, dubbed Sniper Alley during the war. NATO officials, who Monday pledged to use significant force if necessary to enforce Bosnia's peace, had no imediate response beyond condemning the incident. Although...
...with a Bosnian Serb, a Bosnian Croat and a Bosnian army leader, of whom he said, "All of them focused on peace and pledged their determination to succeed with respect to the peace accord." Bosnian Serbs in Sarajevo, meanwhile, were rebuffed by Admiral Leighton Smith, overall commander of the nato-led force, when they sought to delay the reunification of the Bosnian capital; the peace treaty demands that areas controlled by Bosnian Serbs be turned over to the Bosnian government...
...Rene Bousquet, a Nazi sympathizer, long after Bousquet had been charged with crimes against humanity for his actions in deporting French Jews during World War II. But Sancton concludes that "Mitterand deserves credit for putting France on an unambiguously pro-European integration course. In addition, he was a staunch NATO ally during the Cold War and supported the United States during the Gulf War." After an unprecedented pair of seven-year terms as president, Mitterand left office in 1995, his health in decline. In his last days, the ex-president maintained an office in Paris and was often spotted strolling...