WASHINGTON/ZAGREB, May 25 (Hina) - Four of the Contact Group
members stood by their decision to offer the Serbian President
Slobodan Milosevic the partial lifting of sanctions in return for
his recognition of Bosnia-Herzegovina, State Department spokesman
Nicholas Burns said on Wednesday.
Milosevic, who in 1991 started the war for Greater Serbia,
refused Contact Group's offer early this week.
The Serbian leadership should know that the proposal was still
on the table and it was the only offer the USA, France, Germany and
Great Britain could support, Burns said.
The current situation was commented last night on Croatian TV
by President Tudjman's envoy to the Contact Group, Miomir Zuzul.
Zuzul had had a telephone conversation with Robert Frasure
who, on the behalf of the Contact Group, had offered Milosevic a
gradual lifting of sanctions in return for his recognition of the
states emerging after the collapse of former Yugoslavia.
Frasure did not think that Milosevic's refusal meant the end
to the process, but 'a break for everyone to think for a while',
Zuzul said.
Contact Group members hoped that Milosevic could change his
mind and that negotiations, based on the proposed plan, could
continue in ten days.
Croatia's idea was to bring negotiations to the highest
possible level.
"We think that a summit involving Contact Group members should
be organised and that the final agreement should be reached during
that summit. After that we could concentrate on finding mechanisms
for the implementation of that agreement", Zuzul said.
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