U.S. Appeals for Bosnia Aid
The United States made urgent appeals Tuesday to some of its European partners for help in staving off an assault by the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav army on Bosnia-Herzegovina, saying that bloodshed could result in Serbia’s further isolation from the West.
Secretary of State James A. Baker III, after meeting with Bosnian Foreign Minister Haris Siladzic, began a round of calls to European capitals in an effort to put together a joint protest to Serbian leaders.
In addition, European Community political directors were urged during a meeting at the State Department to help Bosnia.
Baker told reporters that within the last day, the United States had sent “another very strongly worded protest to the Serbian leadership” about the march of heavily armed Yugoslav militiamen on the Bosnian town of Visegrad.
Reports of killings of innocent civilians by the militiamen “are extraordinarily tragic and outrageous,” Baker said.
A senior Administration official said Baker hopes a strong protest would force the Serbian leadership to rethink the army advance to aid local Serbs.
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