Article: All sides pledge not to shoot at Nato

RUPERT CORNWELL

Washington

The Clinton administration has obtained letters from the Presidents of Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia pledging the safety of the 60,000 US and Nato troops who will be deployed in Bosnia under last week's Dayton deal.

The almost identically worded letters, signed by Presidents Franjo Tudjman, Alija Izetbegovic and Slobodan Milosevic before they left Ohio, promise "all possible measures to ensure the safety" of the peace-keepers. They were released yesterday, to help build public support before President Bill Clinton's TV address on Monday in which he will make the case for sending US troops to the Balkans.

Legally there is no obstacle to the President acting on his own. ...

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