Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOSNIA: Ultimatum? Phooey...
...Russia, Britain, France and Germany. Under their rules, hedging was unacceptable, and the two sides were expected to take the plan or leave it. When the proposal was presented to the Muslim-led Bosnian government and the Serb rebels on July 6, it came with an ultimatum: if they turned it down, they would be punished. The Bosnian government signed on without conditions. But the Serbs, who have never met a peace plan they liked, coolly called the bluff. Foreign ministers of the five would-be peacemaker states are to meet in Geneva on July 30 and try again...
...their supplies and funding. Are the Serbs getting the point? Apparently not. They're continuing their siege of Sarajevo and their effort to drive Muslims from northeast Bosnia. "The Bosnian Serbs think they will somehow wiggle out of this just like they've wiggled out of every other ultimatum," says TIME's Central Europe Bureau Chief James Graff...
Beyond tactics, moreover, the U.N. has no strategy. Nothing holds the pieces together. There are thousands of peacekeeping troops; on-again, off-again negotiations; the occasional ultimatum, flexibly enforced; the odd air strike. Amounting to what...
Serb forces acceded to the NATO-U.N. ultimatum and pulled virtually all their troops and heavy weapons away from Gorazde. But observers fear they may be moving them northward to Brcko (pronounced Birch-ko), a town on the Croatian- Bosnian border partly held by the Serbs that the U.N. is now considering naming a seventh "safe area." At U.N. headquarters in New York City, the Security Council approved 6,550 additional peacekeepers for Bosnia, after the U.S. withdrew its earlier objections to the cost...