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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...
...Russian wrangling helped keep the CSCE from reaching any agreement on what to do about the war in Bosnia. Russia, which sympathizes with Bosnia's Orthodox Serbs, blocked a proposal to condemn Serb attacks on the Muslim enclave of Bihac. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl suggested a bland appeal for a truce, but even that failed...
...Bosnian Serb leaders today promised former President Jimmy Carter they would agree to a four-month ceasefire in the war with Bosnian Muslims, as well as 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...
...after Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic stunned the world by making concessions to reduce hostilities mainly towards United Nations troops, reports from the former Yugoslavia suggest that his forces aren't completely living up to their leader's promise. If Karadzic keeps his word, former president Jimmy Carter -- yesterday summoned by Karadzic to mediate the conflict -- is certain to be on his way to Bosnia as early as 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...
...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...