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...Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Christopher said that the warring leaders "have agreed that four years of destruction is enough." Addressing the dignitaries gathered for the initialing of the peace accord, Christopher paid special tribute to the families of the three American diplomats killed last August outside of Sarajevo when the U.S. began its determined effort to bring peace to the Balkans. Relatives of the three were present when the Balkan presidents, put their initials on the thick stack of peace documents. The agreement "certainly does not erase the stark memories of the past or guarantee that the fabric...
...Serb republic and a Muslim-Croat federation. The Bosnian state encompassing these two parts will have a central government, a presidency and a parliament. The government will be elected by voters throughout the bifurcated state, under international election supervision. No indicted war criminals may hold office. The city of Sarajevo, the besieged Bosnian capitol that became a symbol of the horror and courage, remains unified under Bosnian control. Refugees will return home. The potentially traumatic process of repatriating those refugees was not clearly spelled out this morning, though President Clinton did say that an independent commission will monitor the human...
...question of dividing land, one problem predominates. "You can sum up the big territorial dispute now in three words," says a Pentagon official. "Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Sarajevo." Having maintained the capital through more than three years of siege, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic wants it to be unified under Bosnian control, while the Bosnian Serbs in Milosevic's delegation want it split between the Muslim-Croat alliance and themselves. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, the leader of the talks, last week pushed an American proposal to make Sarajevo a separate "federal city" outside the territory of either faction and under...
...State Warren Christopher was unable to push the sides in the Bosnian conflict to an agreement at a crucial stage in the two-week-old negotiations. Christopher had traveled to Dayton Tuesday morning hoping to force resolution on crucial questions of territorial control in the former Yugolavia, particularly concerning Sarajevo. "Our negotiating team is certainly willing to work with these parties for the next few days or perhaps into next week," said State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns. But he ruled out a "partial" or "barebones" accord as unacceptable and said that "they can't go home until they reach...
...very important part of these talks -- and there's still a lot of haggling between Croatia's Franjo Tudjman and Bosnia's Alija Izetbegovic -- but that's minor compared to the difficulties in sorting out the Bosnian/Serb agreement. That's hung up on things like the status of Sarajevo and territorial issues like the corridor between Sarajevo and Goradze. It has been slow going this week and with the hard work beginning Christopher is going to apply more pressure to all sides...