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THE WEEK, Page 19WORLDIn London, Mostly Talk
A peace parley makes some headway but the battle of Bosnia
rages on
Poor Sarajevo. It may not survive many more peace talks.
Every time an international conference declares a cease-fire or
debates a plan to save the battered city, fighting seems to get
worse. So it was last week at the start of a 30-country London
conference on the crisis. As the participants arrived at the
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center, Serbian irregulars
subjected the half-ruined Bosnian capital to one of its worst
poundings since the siege began more than five months ago.
Shells and rockets slammed into the city from hillside
emplacements, killing more than a dozen townsfolk and damaging
elegant buildings.
The bombardment appeared to be in defiance of the London
conference, where participants condemned Serbian violence and
threatened tougher sanctions (though they stopped short of
advocating military action). "No trade. No aid. No international
recognition or role," warned British Prime Minister John Major.
Acting U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger said Serbia
must make peace or pay "what we will ensure is an unacceptable
price for aggression." The warnings brought at least lip service
from the Serbs. They promised to open all prison camps and
return about a fifth of the 70% of Bosnia-Herzegovina they have
seized.
But the Balkan war has produced as many broken promises as
broken bodies. Though the warring parties agreed to begin new
talks next week in Geneva, some of those closest to the crisis
are giving up hope. Britain's Lord Carrington, the European
Community negotiator, resigned after a year of fruitless labor
-- including more than 30 cease-fires, all broken. And George
D. Kenney, a career diplomat who heads the State Department's
Yugoslavia desk, resigned to protest America's failure to act
decisively against Serbian "genocide." The London conference,
he said, was "a charade."