NATION/WORLD
Tuesday, December 6, 1994
7A
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NATO expansion heats up European debate
The Associated Press
BUDAPEST. Hungary — The weight of the war in Bosnia bore down on President Clinton yesterday as he urged European leaders to confront forces of despair and hatred with new peacekeeping units and an updated security strategy.
Looking to the future, Clinton added, "As we strive to end the war in Bosnia we must work to prevent future Bosnias."
One positive result of the visit was a ceremony that put the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in force with its schedule for scruiting 9,000 U.S.
and former Soviet nuclear warheads by the turn of the century.
Ending 12 years of hard bargaining and tedious legislative action in Washington, Moscow and, finally last month in Ukraine, the president said, "Free nations can and will create a safer globe than did the divided world of yesterday."
However, the nuclear scale-down and Clinton's message to the 52-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.were muffled by a rebuke from Russian President Boris Yeltsin and sharp words of despair from Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic.
Referring to U.S. plans to expand NATO eastward, Yeltsin said the United States and its West European allies were moving to set up new zones of demarcation. As a result, he said, the drive to draw East and West together after the Cold War could sink into oblivion.
Even as a senior U.S. official dismissed Yeltsin's complaint as alarmist, Izetbegovic was heaping scorn on the West and Russia for not rescuing his country from Serb rebels in a war that has taken some 200,000 lives and left many hundreds of thousands homeless.
Speaking as Bosnian Serbs continued holding 349 United Nations peacekeepers, Clinton lent his support to upgrading the peacekeeping functions of the CSCE.
But Izetbegovic suggested a peace plan being promoted by the United States, Britain, France, Germany and Russia, was a prescription of tranquilizers to a patient suffering from a serious illness. He vowed that the Bosnian government army of 150,000 soldiers would fight to the end.
Backing him up, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman warned his government might eschew a political solution and use means that are within the prerogative of a sovereign state.
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