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Article: Bosnia Peace Is Official // Leaders Ratify Treaty in Paris
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 15, 1995
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PARIS The leaders of the former Yugoslavia signed a peace treaty
Thursday that formally ended 3 1/2 years of war in Bosnia, setting in
motion the deployment of up to 60,000 NATO troops and a huge
reconstruction effort after Europe's most violent conflict in 50
years.
In a ceremony at the Elysee Palace, the presidents of Bosnia,
Croatia and Serbia promised to stop the ethnic bloodshed that caused
the violent destruction of Yugoslavia and to work toward the
reconciliation of their peoples.
President Clinton, who sponsored the treaty with the leaders of
France, Russia, Germany, Britain and Spain, reaffirmed pledges to
send $85.6 million for Bosnia's reconstruction and troops for the ...