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Balkan Arms Control Deal Fails Over Agreement on Status of Republika Srpska
VIENNA, June 7 (Reuters) - Bosnia, Croatia and rump
Yugoslavia on Friday failed to reach full agreement on an arms
control accord, officials said. "There is an agreement on arms reduction, but the document
has not been initialled because there is no agreement on the
status of the parties," Croatian Deputy Foreign Minister Ivan
Simonovic told reporters.
Officials said the talks faltered over the Bosnian
government's insistence the Bosnian Serbs should not be given
equal status as itself in the final document.
The six-month Vienna talks, based on Article IV of the
Dayton agreement, aimed to establish forces and weapons limits
among the region's former warring parties to try to reduce the
danger of fresh conflicts breaking out.
Quotas were to be set on the number of tanks, combat
aircraft, assault helicopters and artillery of 75mm and above.
The talks were mediated by the Vienna-based Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) which insisted it
wanted to adhere to the Dayton timescale as closely as possible.
The Dayton peace pact, which was signed last December and
ended four years of war in former Yugoslavia, required the arms
control negotiations to end by June 6 with an initialling
ceremony by the delegates.
The pact was scheduled to be signed by the parties' foreign
or defence ministers in Oslo on June 11. |
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