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Article: Mitterrand Vows Aid in Daring Visit To Sarajevo
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 29, 1992
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SARAJEVO President Francois Mitterrand of France paid a gutsy but
inconclusive visit to the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina on Sunday in
an attempt to open the city's airport and begin the flow of food and
medicine to its residents.
Mitterrand, who arrived with armed United Nations peacekeeping
forces covering his arrival from the ground, met with Bosnian
President Alija Izetbegovic and a Croat leader.
He gave no details of these talks or of a brief meeting with
Serb leaders at the Sarajevo airport.
"We are going to send humanitarian aid to the people of
Sarajevo, and if necessary it will be protected by force," Mitterrand
said as he strolled the streets of Sarajevo.
Mitterrand went ...