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- U.S. prepared to consider change in Yugoslav policy
- Greece asks EC not to reverse Lisbon decision on Macedonia

Subject: U.S. prepared to consider change in Yugoslav policy

        WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger will
discuss the possibility of lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia-
Hercegovina and enforcement of the ban on Serbian military flights over
the besieged republic during consultations next week with European
leaders, U.S. officials said Thursday.
        Eagleburger travels Saturday to Stockholm for a meeting of the
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, then to Geneva for
talks on Yugoslavia and on Wednesday to Brussels for a meeting of North
Atlantic Treaty Organization foreign ministers. He is prepared to
consider a radical change in approach toward the Balkans conflict, they
said.
        ``Next week's meetings in Europe are important,'' State Department
spokesman Joe Snyder said. ``We're looking at various measures we can
take on dealing with the situation in the former Yugoslavia.''
        The administration has become increasingly fearful that fighting may
spill over into Macedonia, Albania and Greece, officials said. And
Washington supports U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutro-Ghali's
recommendation to deploy 700 peace-keeping troops in Macedonia, Snyder
said.
        In addition, a pattern of increased violations of the U.N.-mandated
air-exclusion zone has left little doubt in Washington that Serbia is
thumbing its nose and doing as it pleases. Boutros-Ghali reported to the
U.N. Security Council this week that Serbian military aircraft had
violated the no-fly zone 57 times from Nov. 27 to Dec. 3.
        It has become clear to the administration that policies toward the
Yugoslav crisis -- from sanctions on Belgrade to the deployment of
peacekeepers and formation of a war crimes commission -- have failed to
stop Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's land grab of Bosnia-
Herzegovina and its hellish offspring ethnic cleansing.
        ``Obviously, the effectiveness does leave something to be desired
since the problem has not been solved,'' a senior State Department
official said. ``Everybody's efforts and policies have not been fully
effective.
        ``We are considering changes to certain elements of the policy.''
        U.S. officials said lifting the arms embargo on Bosnia-Herzegovina so
that the poorly armed, rag-tag Muslim militias may defend themselves
against Serbian attack is one proposal that will be discussed. Officials
said, however, they are not convinced that more weapons in the region
will help stop the killing or hasten a political solution.
        And policing the no-fly zone with jet fighters is another idea
Eagleburger and his counterparts will consider, they said. But Great
Britain and France, which have troops in the ground, have so far blocked
such a move in the U.N. Security Council for fear that Serb fighters
might seek revenge on their soldiers.
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Subject: Greece asks EC not to reverse Lisbon decision on Macedonia

        ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- Greece has warned the European Community that
any reversal of its earlier decision to stand by Athens in its dispute
with the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia could cause a foreign
policy split in the Western alliance, officials said Friday.
        The warning came in a letter Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis
sent British Prime Minister John Major Thursday, on the eve of the EC
summit at Edinburgh, Scotland. Britain currently holds the rotating
presidency of the Community.
        Mitsotakis said in the letter, which officials in Athens released to
the media as the summit was about to open in Edinburgh, that President-
elect Bill Clinton has said he intends to stand by the EC's Lisbon
decision on Macedonia, when he becomes president.
        At Lisbon in July, the 12-member Community unanimously decided not to
recognize the former Yugoslav republic so long as it used the word
``Macedonia'' in its official name.
        Reports circulated before the Edinburgh summit indicated that
Greece's 11 Community partners were considering recognition under the
name ``Republic of Macedonia (Skopje).''
        Greece officially refers to the state as the ``Republic of Skopje,''
after the name of its capital city, and has rejected the compromise
formula reportedly scheduled to be discussed in Edinburgh.
        Mitsotakis warned in his letter that if the EC went ahead and
reversed the Lisbon decision, it could cause a foreign policy split in
the Western alliance, in view of Clinton's statement that as president
he would stand by the Lisbon decision.
        Greece believes that use of the name ``Macedonia'' by the republic,
which declared itself independent of the former Yugoslavia earlier this
yaar, indicated that it harbored territorial ambitions on an adjoining
Greek province of the same name.
        Mitsotakis pointed out in his letter that the name ``Macedonia'' was
``used by Tito and Stalin to try to seize Greek territory.''
        He said Skopje was clinging to cold war policies even after declaring
itself independent of the former Yugoslavia, and if the EC stood by the
Lisbon decision, ``Skopje will see for the first time that Europe and
America are firmly opposed'' to its use of the name.
        In an earlier warning, Mitsotakis said Greece would not vote with its
11 Community partners if they opted for a formula that would have the
effect of reversing the Lisbon decision. This would shatter European
hopes of a common foreign policy, he said.
        Thursday, hundreds of thousands of people turned out for a mass
demonstration in Athens to express support for Mitsotakis's stand on the
Macedonian issue.
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