Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...create the Soviet Union or "a great Rus-sian state" of its former republics. Of course, he says, this must be done peacefully, in a "consistent, step-by-step voluntary way, on the basis of elections, referendums and international treaties." Meanwhile, he says, the West must not expand nato by taking in former Warsaw Pact members...
DESPITE OCCASIONAL REFERENCES TO the U.S. military's role in the Balkans as a mission of peace [BOSNIA, Dec. 11], it is abundantly clear that the preoccupation with U.S. world leadership, nato's credibility, robust rules of military engagement, use of overwhelming force and the like have made genuine peacekeeping in Bosnia a secondary issue. This does not augur well for either its short-term or long-term success. IGOR D. RADOVIC New York City...
VOGOSCA, BOSNIA: NATO troops fired the first hostile gunfire of the Bosnia peacekeeping mission Friday as they defended a wounded Italian military engineer. Corporal Elio Sbordoni was shot in the arm by an unknown sniper who fired on a hotel complex housing Italian soldiers in Vogosca, a Serb-held suburb of Sarajevo. The gunman escaped. NATO officials, who define a 'firing incident' as five or more shots fired in succession, are counting roughly 400 such incidents per day in Sarajevo...
...Bosnian government that non-Serbs are being forcibly detained while traveling through a Sarajevo suburb. Bosnian government minister Hasan Muratovic said that 16 non-Serbs have been detained in the past month while traveling through Ilidza, a Serb suburb west of the city. But although Muratovic called on NATO forces to make Sarajevo safe for all citizens, a NATO spokesman said that wasn't their job. "We are not a police force," said General Andrew Cumming, who added that such incidents must be sorted out by local police and civilian authorities. The complaint comes as many Serbs flee Ilidza, fearful...
...Navy security detail had scouted the area for potential problems. Smith pointedly snubbed leaders of the Bosnian Serbs by refusing to meet with Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, both of whom have been indicted for war crimes. Smith's spokesman, Major Simon Haselock, made it clear that if NATO peacekeeping troops encounter Karadzic or Mladic, "We will do our best to detain them." The two were nowhere to be seen as Smith conducted his meetings. KICKING...