Word: nato
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...mission of distributing food and supplies. Discussions were held in Paris and London about changing the system under which military commanders must in practice obtain U.N. civilian approval to use force for anything beyond shooting back when under attack. On occasion it has been particularly frustrating to U.N. and NATO officers when they wanted to call in air strikes on the Bosnian Serbs and U.N. officials refused to go along. This time, French and British military leaders argued, the rapid-reaction troops should be authorized initially by the U.N. but then be available to the peacekeeping generals...
...bombing attacks on the Serb ammunition dumps two weeks ago were an act of desperation. U.S. and European leaders knew the Serbs were likely to shell cities and take hostages in response. But the Serbs had been shelling Sarajevo anyway and were brazenly violating a nato edict excluding heavy weapons from a 12-mile zone around the city. The allies believed they had to do something, anything, to stand up to them. The new show of allied firmness may turn out to be no less desperate and no more effective...
Secessionist Serbs in Bosnia raised the stakes in their tense standoff with U.N. and NATO forces, downing a U.S. F-16 on routine patrol; Bosnian Serb forces said the jet's lone pilot survived and was in their custody, an assertion the U.S. was unable to confirm. At the same time, the Bosnian Serbs -- under pressure from their erstwhile patron, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic -- released 121 of the more than 370 U.N. peacekeepers they had been holding hostage. U.S. envoy Robert Frasure met with Milosevic to discuss possibly suspending economic sanctions against Serbia in return for the release...
RUSSIA MOVES CLOSER TO NATO...
...foreign ministers of the 16 members of the NATO alliance met with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev in the Netherlands to try to begin building a closer relationship between the former enemies. For the first time, Kozyrev agreed to participate fully in the Partnership for Peace program, which links NATO with its former Warsaw Pact enemies. But Kozyrev warned the ministers that Russia continues to oppose its neighbors' actually joining the alliance: "We would need to clarify whom nato is going to defend itself against," he said. "If one has Russia in mind, it is obvious that this would mean...