Karadzic said in an interview in Milan's Il Giornale newspaper. But he said the Serbs would want the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and Moslem-held Tuzla, an industrial centre in the northeast of the republic. If they give us Sarajevo and Tuzla, I will concede a lot of land.
Percentages mean nothing.
The problem is choosing the territory,'' he said. A big-power peace proposal has been frozen for months by a Serb refusal firmly to accept a map that would divide Bosnia roughly in half between the combatants. The Bosnian government says it will not renegotiate percentages. A U.S. diplomat said in Sarajevo on Monday that Serbs were willing to treat the proposal as a basis for a territorial settlement with the government but were seeking one-sided changes to the map. Bosnia would survive as a single state.