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...which he coaxed it in the '80s. If the sanctions are lifted, Milosevic says, he will personally lead a campaign to deliver the Bosnian Serbs to the peace table-and will bring off a comprehensive regional peace "within six months." What is also clear is that to lift from Serbia (or from Milosevic, or both) the burden of being an international pariah, he has made substantial efforts behind the scenes to prove his good offices...
...than 370 U.N. peacekeepers and taken them to various locations, chaining some to potential targets of further air attacks. On the morning of June 2, Milosevic told Frasure that, while his action had nothing to do with the sanctions negotiations, he had acted to "save the national pride of Serbia." According to notes of the meeting, he declared that "taking hostages ... is like shooting someone carrying a white flag." Milosevic said that he had sent his chief of state security to Pale, the Bosnian Serb stronghold, to tell Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, and General Ratko Mladic, his military...
...Croatian Serb forces in mid-May, Mrksic declared that he wanted to create a highly professional army. Since then he has set up mobile brigades equipped with tanks and artillery, and is said to have initiated the rounding up of Croatian Serb refugees of draft age in Serbia. Though Milosevic denies it, since mid-June police in Serbia have been sweeping up military-age Serbs born in Bosnia and Croatia -- at least 3,000 by some estimates-and shipping them back for instant induction into Serb armies...
...painful enough. Out of a labor force of 2.3 million, 1 million people are jobless and about 700,000 have been temporarily laid off. Gross national product dropped from $2,330 per capita in 1991 to $1,225 in 1993, the latest figure available. An estimated 2 million of Serbia's 10 million people live below the poverty line. The embargo also limits the country's ability to make an industrial recovery. Sanctions-busting on a grand scale -- mainly through Romania and Bulgaria and, to a lesser extent, Macedonia -- keeps stores filled with all manner of goods, but few people...
Still, Milosevic says he sees the sanctions discussion in far more than just economic terms. His argument is that the embargo constitutes the single most important obstacle to a comprehensive regional peace. "Serbia is a major factor for peace in the Balkans," he says, "but we are under sanctions; we are in prison. The international community is making a mistake in expecting us to run in our struggle for peace but do so with the chains of sanctions on our legs." Once the embargo is lifted and a comprehensive peace is in place, he says, economic and other links will...