Word: yugoslavia
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...senior Western diplomat in Belgrade says the initiative results from the Serbs' "overloaded circuits": the Bosnian Serbs' brutal conduct of the war and the sanctions against Yugoslavia have isolated Serbia from the world community; the Bosnian Serbs show signs of becoming weary of the fight; and Belgrade has nothing more to gain from the conflict. But there is another theory: Milosevic's ultimate goal after peace is reached, he says, is some sort of re-confederated Yugoslavia. And who better to lead such a regional, pan-Slavic conglomerate than himself...
...rescued from the Bosnian woods, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Frasure got from Milosevic the first news that the flyer was alive-and assurance of his safety. Frasure had been in Belgrade trying to negotiate a deal in which sanctions could be suspended in return for Yugoslavia's recognition of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In saying goodbye to Milosevic one afternoon, he told the President that Washington feared the pilot was dead. Not so, replied Milosevic: "We know he is alive." He told Frasure that searchers had found a used parachute as well as other equipment apparently abandoned...
last week Yugoslavia won a 75-day extension of the suspension of some sanctions, allowing international air travel as well as cultural and sports exchanges. The U.N. certified that according to its frontier monitors Belgrade has been living up to the commitment to keep all but food, clothing and medical supplies from crossing into Serb-held Bosnia; whatever leakage the U.N. detected it considered "not significant." Says a Western diplomat in Belgrade: "Milosevic closes his eyes to certain things on the border, but then it's impossible to totally close a border in the Balkans...
...mistake in expecting us to run in our struggle for peace but do so with the chains of sanctions on our legs." Once the embargo is lifted and a comprehensive peace is in place, he says, economic and other links will bring the former constituent republics of the old Yugoslavia together in a new kind of alignment driven by economic and cultural interests of long standing-part of a larger integration of Balkan countries that would validate an approach to the European Union. To outsiders at least, such a scenario seems unlikely -- given the bloody passions of the past...
Milosevic says his plan requires a partnership between the U.S. and Yugoslavia as overseers to bring the settlement about, a process he describes as "Americanizing the peace," which, given America's reluctance to engage in the region, seems equally unlikely. He first produced the draft of his proposal last March during secret (but White House-sanctioned) meetings with Democratic Congressman Bill Richardson at Karadjordjevo, a presidential hunting lodge in northern Serbia. Richardson had been invited by Milosevic to pass on to Washington an offer of cooperation, but the Congressman was tasked by the Administration to take the occasion to urge...