Word: owen
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...peacemakers in Geneva last week that he had persuaded the leader of Bosnia's Serbs to accept their plan for partitioning war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was, he said, a "very important step toward peace." The mediators, U.N. special envoy Cyrus Vance and European Community representative Lord Owen, indicated that they believed him. Both gave Milosevic credit for pressing the Bosnian Serb boss, Radovan Karadzic, to accept the plan...
Whatever his motivations, Milosevic had little reason to reject the Vance- Owen plan. Talking about peace has repeatedly allowed the Serbs valuable time to consolidate their conquests. So after Karadzic said no at the international negotiations in Geneva last week, Milosevic had a long, private talk with him and persuaded...
Whether the Vance-Owen plan is the key to peace is questionable. It would force the legitimate Bosnian government, which represents other ethnic groups in addition to the Muslims, who make up 44% of the population, to accept partition of the country. The two mediators have designed an elaborate scheme for twisting Bosnia into 10 autonomous provinces, to be ethnically apportioned among Muslims, Serbs and Croats. The patchwork blueprint can hardly be mapped, let alone offer a structure capable of standing up to the waves of hatred that flow through the real Bosnia. Rather than tamping down ethnic animosity...
Turajlic's cold-blooded murder outraged fellow Muslims and seemed to scuttle a new Bosnian peace initiative, which opened earlier in the week in Geneva. Meeting under U.N. auspices, the republic's factional leaders listened to a plan presented by negotiators Cyrus Vance of the U.S. and Lord Owen of Britain that would divide the multiethnic state into 10 largely autonomous provinces. Of these, Serbs would clearly predominate in one and Muslims in three, with power-sharing agreements between Muslims and either Serbs or Croats required in five others. The last province would be long-besieged Sarajevo, slated to become...
Without this type of harsh penalty on the aggressors, Serbia will continue to use the same methods in other disputed areas, with horrible consequences for all of Europe. Milosevic needs to know that aggression has a price, and Vance and Owen seem incapable of teaching him. They have earned a large part of the blame for both the recent bloodshed and the bloodshed that is likely to come...