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Talbott then placed a call to Holbrooke, who had been dispatched to the Balkans on Aug. 14 to promote a new peace initiative the Americans were pursuing. Hol brooke was in Paris preparing to embark for Belgrade to meet with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Talking on their secure line, Talbott and Holbrooke concluded that the U.S.plan would have no credibility if Washington stood by and allowed the shelling to go unpunished. Talbott then telephoned the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo requesting confirmation that the mortar attack had come from the Bosnian Serbs. By 1 p.m. Washington time the embassy had reported...
...good reason to be. Milosevic whisked Holbrooke to the presidential palace in Belgrade, where he handed the American envoy a document signed by top Bosnian Serb leaders, including political leader Radovan Karadzic, military commander Ratko Mladic and Patri arch Pavle of the Serbian Orthodox Church. "Look," said Milosevic, in what for him must have been a moment of supreme satisfaction. "I now speak for Pale." Translation: the Serbian President did what he had boasted he could do-he had delivered the Bosnian Serbs to the negotiating table. Moreover, he could control the Serb side of the negotiations. According...
...joint negotiating delegation. He claimed, in fact, to have paved the way for this weeks earlier, when Karadzic and Mladic had flown to Belgrade to meet with him immediately after the Croatia offensive. Having been encouraged early on by Milosevic in their bids to establish a satellite Serbian state, the Bosnian Serb leaders were looking to him for support as Croatian President Franjo Tudjman's troops steamrolled through Krajina and into Bosnia during the early weeks of August...
Another wave of NATO bombardment today failed to persuade Gen. Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb army commander, to withdraw about 300 tanks, mortars and other heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. The general's defiance immediately generated international rumors that a rift had emerged between Mladic and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who is negotiating a peace settlement on all Serbs' behalf. But foreign affairs correspondent Marguerite Michaels reports that Mladic is acting in full concert with his patron. "The Serbs are doing something very interesting, which is to draw attention to the fact that the U.N. is not being neutral...
...today, only about 20 weapons appeared to have been withdrawn. (The Serbs say they need more time, fearing that a complete withdrawal would leave their brethren in the suburbs of Sarajevo unprotected.) Technically, Waller says, a Bosnian Serb boycott of the talks may not matter, since Serbian President Milosevic will head the delegation. Still, it remains to be seen just how much control he has: "Milosevic says he speaks for the Bosnian Serbs, but no one knows for sure if this is true...