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Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic announced that his side would stop firing on Muslims Friday at noon -- in accord with the ceasefire agreement brokered by former President Jimmy Carter -- but the Serbs seemed to continue unrelenting attacks right up to the deadline. Today, shells slammed into a Sarajevo marketplace, killing two people, and another round killed one more person in the U.N. "safe zone" of Bihac. "It is a bad sign for the cease-fire," Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic said of the shelling. "We are very disappointed. Nevertheless, we are pushing for a cease-fire and we hope...
Former President Jimmy Carter said today that he's persuaded Bosnian Muslims and Serbs to move toward a negotiated settlement of the war by New Year's Day after implementation of a ceasefire Friday. Under the deal, announced by Carter at Sarajevo airport after two days of talks with leaders on both sides, U.N. peacekeepers would monitor the ceasefire and civilians would have free movement. Carter did not say, however, what would happen if no agreement is reached by the January 1 deadline. The plan aims for a renewable, four-month armistice and stipulates the two sides consider a peace...
...discuss an international peace plan under the aegis of the U.S., Russia, Britain, Germany and France. After several hours of talks with Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in the town of Pale, Carter said he now plans to take his olive-branch-for-hire diplomacy to the Muslims in Sarajevo. Carter began the talks over the weekend even though the Serbs had already broken promises made just days before that made up the conditions for his visit. (U.N. officials, for example, reported that Serb forces attacked peacekeepers and civilian targets in Sarajevo, blocked U.N. convoys and expelled more civilians from...
...this weekend. But today aid workers were detained by the Serbs, a British helicopter on a U.N. transport mission was fired on and Bihac was again attacked. As a result, the fate of Carter's mission seemed uncertain. Karadzic has said the unilateral moves -- which include a ceasefire around Sarajevo and eased transportation for U.N. and other neutral parties -- would be implemented within 24 hours. Carter will be going as a private citizen -- not as a representative of the Clinton Administration, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said today. That's because Bosnian Serbs have regularly made and broken...
Letter from Sarajevo: Not just Side A and Side...