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...DROPS SERBIA SANCTIONS...
President Clinton suspended the sanctions imposed three years ago against Serbia and Montenegro, declaring they had done their job in forcing the Bosnian Serbs to the negotiating table. Clinton also said he had directed Secretary of State Warren Christopher to end the arms embargo against all three of Bosnia's warring parties...
Bosnia and Herzegovina enjoyed the prospect of a peaceful Christmas, the first in nearly four years, after the Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia signed a treaty in Paris. President Clinton also signed it, along with the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Spain, at a ceremony in the Elysee Palace. Under the agreement, Bosnia will be partitioned into two roughly equal parts--one for Bosnian Serbs, another for a Muslim-Croat federation. In Bosnia, advance teams from nato's 60,000-strong peacekeeping force were battling only record snows in the initial stages of their deployment...
...peace represents a compromise hammered out in marathon negotiations in Dayton, Ohio, between the presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, under the auspices of Secretary of State Warren Christopher and his chief negotiator, Assistant Secretary Richard C. Holbrooke. While the accord does not represent a victory for justice, it offers far more hope to the peoples of Bosnia than the continuation of a war whose only certainty would be more death. The accord preserves a unified Bosnia within internationally recognized borders, even while it vests substantial political authority in the two republics that divide the country, the Muslim-Croat Federation...
After three weeks of wildly seesawing talks in Dayton, Ohio, the Presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia initialed a peace agreement to end the nearly four-year war in Bosnia that has killed untold thousands; a formal signing ceremony is scheduled to take place in Paris in December. Bosnian Serb leaders, who at first vehemently opposed the accord, relented after arm twisting by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. The agreement, while preserving Bosnia as a single state, separates it into two entities: a Serb republic, controlling 49% of the land, and a federation of Muslims and Croats, controlling 51%. The federation...