From: trh@jack.sns.com (Al Trh)
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Subject: News, 9 Jan (from Haluk)
Date: 10 Jan 1993 23:22:46 -0600
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 : Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister Meets Turkish Gov. Delegation, Shot on Return
 from Airport
 : Bosnian-Muslim leader favors peace plan but Serbs do not

 Subject: Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister Meets Turkish Gov. Delegation, Shot on
 Return from Airport

        SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (UPI) -- Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister
 Hakija Turajlic was shot and seriously wounded Friday while traveling
 under U.N. escort from Sarajevo airport to the center of the city.
        Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic said he had been informed by French
 Gen. Philippe Morillon, head of U.N. forces in war-torn Bosnia-
 Herzegovina, that Turajlic was ``fighting for his life.''
        A U.N. armored personnel carrier with Turajlic inside was stopped by
 Serb troops on the airport road, which is under the control of the U.N.
 Protection Force. Egyptian Gen. Hussein Abdel Razek, head of U.N. forces
 in Sarajevo, rushed to the scene to resolve the situation. The Serb
 troops apparently were demanding entry to the vehicle carrying Turajlic.
        Turajlic had gone to the airport to meet members of a Turkish
 government delegation visiting Sarajevo. After the shooting Turajlic was
 taken to the U.N. French battalion field hospital in the west of the
 city, Ganic said.
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 Subject: Bosnian-Muslim leader favors peace plan but Serbs do not

        WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Bosnian-Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic said
 Friday that he supports most parts of a U.N.-brokered peace plan, but
 doubts whether Serbians will respond positively when the two sides
 reconvene in Geneva next week.
        Izetbegovic is scheduled to meet Friday with Secretary of State
 Lawrence Eagleburger, national security advisor Brent Scowcroft and
 President-elect Bill Clinton's deputy national security transition
 leader Leon Feurth.
        The meetings were scheduled despite a request by Cyrus Vance, the
 special U.N. envoy, that neither Eagleburger nor President Bush meet
 with Izetbegovic.
        Izetbegovic, speaking to reporters at the Carnegie Endowment for
 International Peace, said the plan presented to him, Bosnian-Serb leader
 Radovan Karadzic and Bosnian-Croat leader Mate Boban is flawed. But, he
 said, it may represent the last chance for peace in the Balkans.
        ``The papers were not perfect for us,'' Izetbegovic said through an
 interpreter. ``But I could not take the responsibility to miss a
 possible solution.''
        Vance, former secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter, and
 British Lord Owen, charged by the United Nations with trying to find a
 solution to end the bloodshed in Bosnia-Herzegovina, presented a plan to
 the factional leaders in Geneva last week.
        It called for a cease-fire and the explicit recognition of Bosnia-
 Herzegovina within established international boundaries. But the Vance-
 Owen proposal divides the nascent republic into 10 autonomous regions
 based on ethnicity.
        Izetbegovic said he generally accepted the plan, but rejected the
 divisions because they recognize gains made by Serbs through the heinous
 practice known as ``ethnic cleansing.''
        ``We cannot accept the shape of these provinces,'' he said. ``Some
 areas ethnically cleansed by Serbs were left under the control of Serbs.
 ''
        The administration has said that it supports the peace process, but
 also would reject any plan that recognizes Serbian gains made by ridding
 a region of Moslems and Croats through such intimidation as murder, rape
 and confiscation of property.
        Nevertheless, Izetbegovic said, he and Croat leader Boban accepted it
 in the hopes that further talks would render a negotiated solution to
 their objections.
        Karadzic, however, did not endorse the Vance-Owen proposal and called
 for a one-week recess to consider it.
        Izetbegovic said that based on what he has been told by various
 sources during the recess, Karadzic will not support any part of the
 plan.
        ``I am afraid the (Serbs) are not going to accept it,'' he said.
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