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Meanwhile, the U.N. Security Council lifted some of the sanctions leveled against Serbia after Belgrade closed its border with Bosnia. A ban on civilian air traffic will be lifted for 100 days, and the Serbs can resume international sports and cultural contacts. The council also condemned Bosnian Serbs for renewal of their ethnic-cleansing campaign in northern Bosnia, where about 3,000 Muslims have been driven from their homes...
Monitoring Serbia's Word...
Western diplomats reported a breakthrough agreement with Serbia over the stationing of international civilian monitors along its border with Bosnia, raising the possibility that the U.N. may ease some of its less important sanctions against Serbia. The monitors' mission would be to help ensure that Serbia is keeping its word on the military embargo it has imposed against its Bosnian Serb allies as a result of their refusal to sign on to the latest peace plan...
...Greater Serbia...
...Serbs' defiance but also their desperation at recent battlefield advances made by their enemies the Bosnian Muslims, who have been helped by a new arms pipeline through Croatia. Even worse, the Bosnian Serbs appeared to have been abandoned by one of their staunchest allies -- Slobodan Milosevic, President of Serbia. On Thursday, Milosevic severed all political and economic ties with the Bosnian Serbs, accusing them of "insane political ambitions." Milosevic's move was ostensibly in retaliation for the Bosnian Serbs' refusal to sign the latest U.N.-brokered peace plan. But his action stems less from his own outrage at Serb aggression...