Word: nato
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Shortly before the CSCE summit began, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev refused to go through with the scheduled signing of documents to create loose military ties between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO alliance...
...Boutros-Ghali said in response, cannot end the fighting in Bosnia until the world's most powerful countries "impose a solution through military action." He also said "a division of labor" in Bosnia, with NATO in charge of air power and the U.N. leading ground troops, had hurt peacekeeping efforts there...
...knows he can get a good deal. Both the earlier deals were much softer than what the United Nations had planned," TIME U.N. correspondent Bonnie Angelo says. But the entry of Carter into the Bosnian conflict has thrown mediators -- working for months to resolve the conflict -- for a loop. NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes quickly expressed outrage, but it's the U.N. that has received the biggest slight in the effort, Angelo says. U.N. officials tell Angelo that Yasushi Akashi, U.N. chief of Yugoslavian activities, had met with Karadzic just the night before he made his offer public and "Karadzic...
...four peacekeepers wounded in this week's Serb attack succumbed to his wounds today, NATO officials lashed out at the U.N. for standing in the way of retaliating. NATO Secretary General Willy Claes, after a meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry in Brussels, angrily denied that NATO had failed to respond to the deliberate attack on U.N. soldiers with air attacks. "Sorry -- there's never been one request (for air strikes). We are ready, as always," Claes told reporters. A U.N.-NATO agreement permits military action only after the "dual key" of both organizations is applied. NATO has been...
According to another secret memo TIME has obtained, which Perry sent Lake later in the week, Perry wants to have NATO assume complete command of any evacuation of peacekeeping troops should that become necessary. It might, if Republican Majority Leader Bob Dole's plan to lift the arms embargo unilaterally and mount aggressive NATO air strikes passes Congress. NATO could be forced to attempt a "hostile extraction" of U.N. forces, and at least 10,000 American troops would be needed. In fact NATO is already speeding up its evacuation planning, and Perry asked for authority to tell the alliance...