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Article: Western leaders ponder air option
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 21, 1995
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MICHAEL SHERIDAN
Diplomatic Editor
Today's meeting in London on the Bosnian crisis includes at
least 16 nations but in practice its decisions depend on agreement
between four: Britain, the United States, France and Russia.
It has already proved difficult to unite the three Western
allies around a coherent policy. But Britain appears to have
uneasily crossed a watershed in accepting that air strikes may now
be employed as an instrument of coercion against the Bosnian Serbs
without the existing constraints imposed by the UN.
This change in British attitude will, no doubt, come accompanied
by fluent protestations that nothing has legally been altered and
London will probably make efforts to ...