U.N. OKs Advance Unit for Yugoslavia
The Security Council reached tentative agreement Friday to send a small advance party of military observers to Yugoslavia, partly as a way of heading off Germany’s recognition of Croatia.
“I think that the members of the council will agree to have a resolution passed tomorrow, on Saturday,” said the council president, Soviet Ambassador Yuli Vorontsov. “The situation in Yugoslavia warrants that.”
Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar told council members Friday that he is willing to send an advance unit that diplomats said would number fewer than 100, perhaps just a few dozen, including military observers.
The advance party would presage eventual deployment of a U.N. peacekeeping force of 10,000 soldiers and police. The secretary general does not want to send the full force until Croatia and the Serb-dominated federal forces agree to hold their fire. So far, 14 brokered cease-fires have quickly fallen apart.
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