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Article: Britain winning extra troops for Bosnia
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 9, 1994
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A BRITISH-LED diplomatic effort is expected to bring agreement
before the end of the week on a fresh contingent of several
thousand United Nations troops - including a force from Britain -
being sent to Bosnia.
A meeting to be chaired in New York today by Sir David Hannay,
British Ambassador to the UN, looks increasingly likely to lead to
a mix of redeployments and new detachments from several countries
in response to the UN request for more than 10,500 troops.
Although the total, at least initially, is likely to fall well
short of that number, British diplomats have reported back to
ministers that they are optimistic that several countries -
including some first- time contributors from the ...