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Moving swiftly to establish authority, Major General William Nash, commander of the American forces in Bosnia, gathered leaders of the region's three warring factions to talk peace. The general met with a Bosnian Serb, a Bosnian Croat and a Bosnian army leader, of whom he said, "All of them focused on peace and pledged their determination to succeed with respect to the peace accord." Bosnian Serbs in Sarajevo, meanwhile, were rebuffed by Admiral Leighton Smith, overall commander of the nato-led force, when they sought to delay the reunification of the Bosnian capital; the peace treaty demands that areas...
VOGOSCA, BOSNIA: NATO troops fired the first hostile gunfire of the Bosnia peacekeeping mission Friday as they defended a wounded Italian military engineer. Corporal Elio Sbordoni was shot in the arm by an unknown sniper who fired on a hotel complex housing Italian soldiers in Vogosca, a Serb-held suburb of Sarajevo. The gunman escaped. NATO officials, who define a 'firing incident' as five or more shots fired in succession, are counting roughly 400 such incidents per day in Sarajevo...
...fragile peace in Sarajevo was tested again with accusations by the Bosnian government that non-Serbs are being forcibly detained while traveling through a Sarajevo suburb. Bosnian government minister Hasan Muratovic said that 16 non-Serbs have been detained in the past month while traveling through Ilidza, a Serb suburb west of the city. But although Muratovic called on NATO forces to make Sarajevo safe for all citizens, a NATO spokesman said that wasn't their job. "We are not a police force," said General Andrew Cumming, who added that such incidents must be sorted out by local police...
...negotiating table in Dayton when President Bill Clinton officially suspended economic and military sanctions against Yugoslavia on Thursday, ending a three-year boycott of the country. Lifting of sanctions that had crippled his county had been a crucial issue for Milosevic, who in effect promised to deliver the Bosnian Serbs in return for a lifting of sanctions. Key to his decision, Clinton said, were assurances that the U.S. would be able to monitor Serb compliance with the Dayton accords: "Before agreeing to sanctions suspension," Clinton said, "we insisted on a credible reimposition mechanism to ensure no backsliding on the commitments...
Despite the seeming calm on the military front, hundreds of nervous Bosnian Serbs were packing up and fleeing Sarajevo in anticipation of Bosnian Muslims taking control of the city beginning January 19. It is unclear how significant this movement is, says Alexandra Niksic, because many of those lining the roads were carting furniture rather than clothes and essentials. There were some reports of houses being burned as they left, but so far no accounts of violence. The fear, says Alexandra Niksic, is being fanned by Bosnian Serb leaders who remain beligerently opposed to the terms of the Dayton accord which...