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...idea was to bring the warring parties in Bosnia closer together, and with some overt stage management, the U.S. accomplished it--literally. When the foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia and Serb-led Yugoslavia arrived at the American mission in Geneva last Friday, they were ushered into a modest conference room and seated at a small round table that was purposely chosen by the Americans for the intimacy it would create. Things were so cramped that the ministers and their hosts sat almost knee to knee. After seven hours, they emerged with a one-page agreement on basic principles that...
...punishment from the air. After a pause to see if Mladic had decided to comply, the attacks began again last week. Wave after wave of NATO planes, including U.S., British and French jets, bombed Serb installations in several parts of Bosnia, and by Friday, when the diplomats met in Geneva, NATO air forces had flown more than 2,000 sorties...
...Serbs punished?" He warned NATO to halt the air strikes or see Europe again divided into "two camps." American officials assumed most of Yeltsin's protest was for domestic consumption, but they took care to seat Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov prominently at the negotiating table in Geneva...
...Friday afternoon Holbrooke had managed to win agreement from Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia to send their foreign ministers to Geneva this week to join representatives from the so-called Extended Contact Group--including the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Russia--in beginning peace talks. "These negotiations will be complicated, and they will be difficult," said State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns. That, no doubt, is an understatement...
...bombing and recent losses to the Croatian army, the Bosnian Serbs made what most observers viewed as a key concession when they agreed to be represented by Serbia in peace negotiations. At week's end the U.S. announced that talks were slated to be held late this week in Geneva between the foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. Nevertheless, the Bosnian Serbs rejected U.N. demands to end the siege of Sarajevo, leading to a NATO ultimatum to end the choke hold on the city or face renewed air strikes...