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Article: Bosnian Serbs Demand New Deal for Sarajevo
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 27, 1995
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Bosnian Serb leaders sought today to delay the reunification of
Sarajevo under Muslim rule by more than six months and suggested that
their initial compliance with the Bosnian peace plan could sour if
the demand is refused.
U.S. Navy Adm. Leighton W. Smith, commander of the NATO peace
force in Bosnia, said he was noncommittal after hearing the Bosnian
Serbs' proposal during a meeting here in Pale, the Bosnian Serb
headquarters 10 miles east of Sarajevo. But he specified that he has
authority to modify deadlines set down in the Dayton peace accords,
which cover a variety of steps ranging from troop pullbacks to
elections.
A NATO source said, meanwhile, that Bosnian Serb military
commander and ...