11. Russia is also considering a French proposal under which Russian combat troops would serve with French troops under French tactical command. 12. Russian troops also serve with U.N. troops in Kosovo. 13. Russian troops will serve under Russian commanders, who will in turn report to the top NATO officers of their sectors. 14. Since he took office, Clinton has said U.S. ground troops would serve in Bosnia only if and when the warring parties reached a peace agreement. 15. The chief negotiators for Russia and NATO haggled for a fourth day to no avail Sunday over how and where Russian troops would serve in a Kosovo peacekeeping operation. 16. The compromise was designed to enable Yeltsin to claim that Russian peacekeeping troops will serve as independent partners with allied forces in Kosovo. 17. The conditions under which Canadian troops served in Bosnia stand in sharp contrast to what U.S. soldiers encountered there. 18. The United States has insisted that Russian troops serve under NATO command or play a non-combat role like clearing mines. 19. These troops would serve under the overall authority of the NATO commander but would remain operationally separate. 20. U.S. troops would likely serve as part of a multinational force on the Golan Heights. |