NATO Forces Linked to Bosnia Peace
International mediator Lord Owen said Wednesday that he hopes NATO’s commitment to take on the peacekeeping job in Bosnia will persuade Muslims to agree to a peace deal to end the 17-month-old civil war.
“I hope the message from this NATO meeting will be heard in Sarajevo by anyone who may have doubts,” Owen said in Brussels. He and co-mediator Thorvald Stoltenberg briefed the alliance on Monday’s negotiations between Bosnia’s warring Muslims, Croats and Serbs aboard a British warship in the Adriatic.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization plans to send up to 50,000 ground troops to Bosnia to oversee the peace agreement if all three sides accept. The mediators said that NATO may be called on to fight and that the forces should be well-armed and deployed quickly.
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