Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sanctions against Serbia only repeats that pattern. Sanctions have not measurably weakened Belgrade's resolve, and are not likely to. Indeed, the campaign in Bosnia is so unquestioned in Belgrade that the nominally democratic opposition last week hailed a plan to install a new parliament representing Serbs in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia -- a.k.a. Greater Serbia...
...contemplate plans for enforcing the ban. Fear of fighting yet to come compelled the Security Council to approve sending monitors to Macedonia, and President Bush urged the same for neighboring Kosovo, where tensions are high between Serbs and the ethnic Albanian majority. A shipment of construction material did reach Montenegro to prevent some 7 million tons of toxic sludge from breaking through a dangerously weakened dam and flowing into the Danube River system...
Perhaps they will, but finally the noose seems to be tightening. Last week the U.N. Security Council approved plans to bar all shipments of strategic goods through Serbia and Montenegro, including fuel, steel and chemicals. NATO and the nine-nation Western European Union last week authorized a naval blockade to intercept sanction-busting vessels in the Adriatic Sea beginning on Tuesday this week. Bulgaria and Romania have started patrolling the Danube and inspecting suspicious cargoes. In addition, Bulgaria has banned petroleum exports to all former Yugoslav republics. "The sanctions regime won't plug all the loopholes," said a Western diplomat...
...done nothing to stop the war still blazing in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The popularity of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic has sunk, but he sits as firmly as ever in the saddle. What the sanctions have done is deepen the state of economic extremis for most people in Serbia and Montenegro. By the end of the year, estimates Austrian trade official Karl Syrovatka, 550,000 working people will be carrying the burden of 750,000 unemployed, 1.4 million on ostensibly temporary layoffs and 1.1 million pensioners. Between September and October alone in the two remaining republics of the former Yugoslavia, industrial output...
...have been easily diverted from imaginary destinations in Bosnia or elsewhere. While Romania and Bulgaria stiffened controls on the Danube and their borders, frigates from NATO members (including the U.S.) and the nine-nation Western European Union in the Adriatic were authorized to begin stopping sanction busters bound for Montenegro. The West hopes the pressure now being applied will unseat Milosevic and take the air out of the Serbs' war efforts in Bosnia. But it might lead Serbs and Montenegrins to a greater sense of shared victimhood. (See related story on page...