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BOSNEWS digest 440 -- 22/20/95
From: Nermin Zukic <n6zukic@sms.business.uwo.ca>
CONTENTS
[01] DEVELOPMENTS ON THE DIPLOMATIC FRONT AND ON THE GROUND IN THE BALKANS
[01] DEVELOPMENTS ON THE DIPLOMATIC FRONT AND ON THE GROUND IN THE BALKANS
Representatives from the Bosnian Army and Serbian forces met under U.N.
auspices on the front-line in northwestern Bosnia to establish a truce.
Fighting has continued in the region despite an official cease-fire.
Serbian forces recently advanced four miles into government-held territory
north of the strategic town of Sanski Most.
The Croatian government and Serbian forces plan to resume negotiations next
Monday over the future of eastern Slavonia, the only region of Croatia still
occupied by Serbian forces. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman recently
assured Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke that, contrary to
speculation about Croatian troop movements, Croatia would not attempt
immediately to liberate the region by force, at least so long as negotiations
led to a peaceful settlement before the end of November.
Beginning on October 31, the U.S. will host peace negotiations between
Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, and
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in
Dayton, Ohio. Izetbegovic issued today 21 demands for the talks. The
demands included terminating the arms embargo against Bosnia if a peace
accord is signed and banning suspected war criminals from taking part in
elections in post-settlement Bosnia. Izetbegovic also said that Russian
troops participating in the settlement implementation force should be matched
by an equal number of troops from Muslim states. Russian UNPROFOR troops
have been notoriously pro-Serbian. Russian and NATO officials remain unable
to agree to an integrated command structure to accommodate Russia's demand
that its troops not be under NATO command.
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