Michael Dobbs, a leading reporter for the US daily, The Washington Post, covered the ministerial meeting in New York. He kindly responded to VREME's request to share his impressions about the negotiations for peace in Bosnia
The curfew in Doboj starts at eight in the evening and ends at five in the morning. People without special passes can only curl up in their homes and listen to the muffled sounds of battle coming from the surrounding hills and towards Ozren mountain. Single shots and automatic fire are heard, heavy caliber weapons covering everything and the detonations approach and draw away under some undefinable rules of war. Everything is happening close enough to cause a mild anxiety but still far enough to be harmless. That's why they easily got used to the little night music and can sleep without problems
Not everyone is as lucky as Scott O'Grady: the two Frenchmen were downed in a place of no escape and the Bosnian Serbs, impressed with the games surrounding O'Grady's rescue, thought they had a huge negotiation ace up their sleeve. A number of comical situations arose
The Forum maintains that the Bosnian Krajina MPs are obliged to re-examine the war goals of the Serbian people as defined by the Bosnian Serb National Assembly. If not, some of the goals will be achieved at Bosnian Krajina's expense
Of the 39 Serbs held in Sibenik, an investigation has been launched against 10 under charges which were handed to them in the UN base in Knin on July 15
Describing the situation in the Kolubara coal-field, director Milan Obradovic compared the coal reserves with a larder in a household: "We had a larder from which we kept taking and taking and now it is empty"
Like any other collectivism, the Serbian socialism is constantly struggling against interest rates, that is, "the high price of capital." If the Serbian government defeats economic laws - there comes a new disaster