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...conflict, but it's not as if those efforts had been on the verge of a breakthrough. Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin flew into Belgrade alone Friday, having been stood up once again by the European Union's mediator, Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari. After three-way talks with U.S. envoy Strobe Talbott in Moscow, Ahtisaari went instead to Germany for talks with EU president and German Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, although Chernomyrdin promised that he and the Finn would return to Belgrade next week. "Things are not looking good on the diplomatic front right now," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo...
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott could see a glimmer of progress. Viktor Chernomyrdin, the former Russian Prime Minister whom Boris Yeltsin has appointed as his Kosovo envoy, was inching last Wednesday night toward compromise. Chernomyrdin had signed off on a sketch of what postwar Kosovo's government might look like, and, nearby, a Russian general had spread out a map with lines drawn showing how armed peacekeepers might be deployed. Peace, Talbott hoped, was closer. But then a note was passed into the Kremlin meeting. Yeltsin had just sacked his Prime Minister, Yevgeni Primakov. Chernomyrdin--whom Yeltsin had fired...
...Kosovo exit strategy now rests squarely on the diplomatic corps -- and the growing involvement of Finland's president suggests that a breakthrough on that front may be on the horizon. President Martti Ahtisaari met for two days with Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott in Helsinki before Chernomyrdin left for Belgrade Wednesday and Talbott departed for NATO headquarters. Ahtisaari, an accomplished peacemaker with extensive European and U.N. credentials, has been tapped by European NATO members to represent them as a mediator, but has said he'll go to Belgrade only when Russia and NATO...
Since then, Vice President Al Gore and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott had worked on Chernomyrdin, Clinton had spoken three times to Yeltsin, and Albright had spoken almost daily with Ivanov. When he arrived last Monday, Chernomyrdin made it clear that Russia was willing to accept, at least privately, the idea of an international security force, though not necessarily a NATO-led one. The discussions continued throughout the evening at Gore's official residence (while Albright attended a state dinner) and resumed there Tuesday morning...
While some top Clinton administration officials (and even Hillary) may be pining for a photo op in the Balkan war zone, they will have to get their snapshots the hard way. When Deputy Secretary of State STROBE TALBOTT flew in to the Macedonian capital of Skopje a few weeks ago in one of the Air Force's Lockheed C-130s, he got the ride of his life. The problem for potential future visitors: Talbott's plane was "painted," meaning that the Serbian military's antiaircraft system had got the plane in its target sight. Talbott's flight crew immediately began...