Word: slobodan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe that Serbs have the legitimate right to live in one country. If we must fight, then, by God, we will fight. --Slobodan Milosevic...
...military standoff could provide the opening diplomats are looking for. With war-weariness and lower morale setting in, even the Serbs may be interested now. The Contact Group still hopes it can persuade Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to provide the extra push that will get his Bosnian Serb kin to the bargaining table. If the new offensive that exploded last week shows both sides they are on a path to greater violence in a war neither can win, the moribund negotiations could take on new life...
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic promptly took credit for the release, announcing that the Bosnian Serbs had accepted his appeal as a sign of readiness to start "resolving the crisis." But the crisis was far from over. On Friday a U.S. Air Force F-16 had been shot down over the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Banja Luka. Serb commander Ratko Mladic reportedly claimed to have found the pilot, but there was no immediate confirmation. A senior official in Washington said Saturday he hoped that it was true and that the Serbs would release him promptly...
...NATO forces, downing a U.S. F-16 on routine patrol; Bosnian Serb forces said the jet's lone pilot survived and was in their custody, an assertion the U.S. was unable to confirm. At the same time, the Bosnian Serbs -- under pressure from their erstwhile patron, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic -- released 121 of the more than 370 U.N. peacekeepers they had been holding hostage. U.S. envoy Robert Frasure met with Milosevic to discuss possibly suspending economic sanctions against Serbia in return for the release of the other hostages and Serbian recognition of Bosnia's borders. NATO and European Union defense...
...goal of a serious policy, says Council on Foreign Relations president Leslie Gelb, "should be a settlement along the lines of the territorial division already approved by" Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. That scheme contemplates a roughly fifty-fifty split of Bosnia. "There's no hope for a nice, multiethnic society," says Gelb. "The parties will keep fighting till they're together" with their brethren. "So, up front, we should propose that the Serbs in Bosnia confederate with Serbia and move people so they're living in areas contiguous to Serbia itself...