Europeans Will Expand Observer Force in Balkans
Diplomats from Europe and North America announced Thursday a plan to send as many as 500 observers to Yugoslavia to forge “an effective cease-fire.”
While acknowledging that the key to peace lies with the splintering Balkan nation’s warring factions, they voted to broadly expand the 46-member observer force now in Yugoslavia.
The special session of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe convened here Thursday to discuss the violence that has raged since Croatia and Slovenia declared independence June 25.
Up to 500 monitors could be sent under Thursday’s resolution, one official said.
Meanwhile, a shaky truce held throughout most of strife-torn Croatia for a second day Thursday, despite reports that a Croatian guardsman was killed by Serb militants near Glina.
In Washington, the State Department repeated an advisory issued in June, urging Americans to leave Yugoslavia.
The advisory also said some non-essential U.S. government personnel and dependents had been withdrawn from Zagreb, the Croatian capital.
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