U.N. Serb Report Arrived Too Late
An hour after the Security Council clamped sanctions on Serbia on Saturday, it received a report--made public Wednesday--saying Belgrade does not control the main Serbian militia fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The report by U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and his chief peacekeeper, Marrack Goulding, also said Croatians are involved in the fighting in Bosnia.
Security Council ambassadors are wondering now whether they were too tough on Serbia.
On Saturday, the council voted 13-0, with two abstentions, to clamp sanctions on Serbia and Montenegro, the two republics remaining in Yugoslavia.
A Western diplomat said Wednesday that if council members had seen the report before the vote, the resolution would have barely squeaked through.
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