1. Already Carl Bildt, the new European mediator for Bosnian peace, is hinting his mission is doomed. 2. And Clinton, just back from Europe, is going to Paris just for the day to witness the signing of the Bosnian peace pact. 3. Assistant Secretary of State Richard C. Holbrooke, who brokered the Bosnian peace accord, will arrive in the Balkans on Sunday to try to resolve the rupture. 4. At the same time, Yeltsin expressed the hope that the Bosnian peace talks under way in Geneva, organized by American diplomacy, would succeed. 5. -- Dismissed a suggestion that the political difficulties of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and the poor health of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman threatened the Bosnian peace accords. 6. A growing number of European political figures are condemning the Bosnian peace negotiations as fundamentally flawed. 7. A more active American role can help ameliorate many of the troubles bedeviling the Bosnian peace, including the reappearance of Karadzic. 8. Above all, each should reiterate their support for the Bosnian peace plan. 9. Bosnian peace and independence depends on making the federation a reality. 10. Brokered a Bosnian peace? |