21.   The United Kingdom opposed sending a peacekeeping force because it represented a long-term commitment but suggested an oil embargo.

22.   The OAS rejected calls from Argentina, Venezuela and Costa Rica for firmer action, including the threat of direct intervention by a multi-national peacekeeping force.

23.   The delegations supported sending an international peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia and said that military action in solving internal political disputes was inadmissible.

24.   The Croatian leadership, however, denounced this as an attempt to create a Greater Serbia, and insisted that peacekeeping forces should be on the legal republican borders.

25.   He gave assurances, however, that ULIMO forces would not attack the regional peacekeeping force, ECOMOG.

26.   Foreign Ministers called for a comprehensive political settlement, and spoke of the need to create the conditions for an early deployment of UN peacekeeping forces.

27.   Thus it was agreed that a buffer zone policed by the regional peacekeeping force ECOMOG was to be established as soon as possible along the border with Sierra Leone.

28.   Turkey and Egypt expressed readiness to participate in a UN peacekeeping force.

29.   In the discussion of mechanisms for conflict settlement, some delegates argued that the OAU lacked the resources to create a continent-wide peacekeeping force.