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Iraq appears ready to talk
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Iraq's ambassador appealed yesterday for "constructive dialogue" to head off a possible military confrontation over Baghdad's repeated defiance of U.N. authority.
"I think we are all worried about the possibility of a military strike," said Nizar Hamdoon, Iraq's ambassador, after he delivered a letter on the current confrontations from Iraq's foreign minister to the president of the Security Council.
Hamdon said Iraq's ban on U.N. flights by weapons inspectors is only temporary, and he offered to hold talks on the other disputes, including Iraq's excursions across the Kuwaiti border to take missiles and equipment.
But the council president, Yoshio Hatano of Japan, said yesterday that Iraq had made no definitive proposals
for ending the showdown.
Earlier yesterday, a diplomatic source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the U.N. may give Baghdad a last chance to allow weapons inspectors to fly their own aircraft into Iraq before suggesting a U.S. military strike.
U. N. officials may resubmit flight plans to Baghdad on Thursday for飞ying about 60 U.N. weapons inspectors stranded in Bahrain into Iraq, the source said.
But if Iraq holds firm to the ban, the United States and its allies could proceed with an air strike, the source said.
Hamdoun said that the letter he delivered to the council stressed Iraq's wishes to continue constructive dialogue and to try to resolve the outstanding problems.
The Iraqi ban on U.N. flights is seen here as the most serious, long-term problem. It could allow Iraq to rebuild its weapons industry by crippling U.N. inspections and slowing the destruction of Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and its weapons production plants.
Hamduoo told reporters that the ban on U.N. flights was temporary because of security concerns due to military threats. He said that when circumstances change, Iraq will be willing to discuss solutions to the problem.
Iraqi intransigence on two other fronts — the north and south, where they are stationing anti-aircraft missiles in no-fly zones, and staging border raids into Kuwait to grab weapons — seen as militarily less significant.
— are seen as militarily less significant.
Prospects of a military strike have
been increasing because two Security Council warnings have failed to produce results. The border raids continued yesterday for the third consecutive day.
Hamdon told Cable News Network that he was not sure whether Iraq would return the weapons it seized, which included four Silkworm anti-ship missiles. He also defended his claim to a right to deploy anti-aircraft missiles.
"Those are defensive missiles and Iraq, as a country, as a sovereign nation, has a right to keep its military power," he said.
The United States and its allies believe they need no further Security Council action before launching a military strike.
The council has already determined Iraq has violated the cease-fire, so legally the U.S.-led coalition that supported Iraqans from Kuwait in 1991 could attack.
Bosnian leader accepts peace proposal
The Associated Press
GENEVA — the leader of Bosnian Serbs said yesterday he accepted mediators' peace proposals, apparently dropping demands for a separate state within the war-ravaged nation.
But a leader of the self-styled Bosnian Serb Republic predicted lawmakers would not back the deal by Radovan Karadzic.
The disagreement illustrates the fragile state of efforts by mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen to end the ethnic fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serbs led by Karadzic control about 70 percent of the territory.
Combat continues sporadically in Sarajevo and along a strategic Serb-
held land corridor in northern Bosnia, which government forces have cut several times in the past two months. The nar-
nectes Serb-held land in western Bosnia with Serbia.
Serbia has been blamed for fomenting a civil war that has killed more than 17,000 people, left 1 million homeless and produced charges of "ethnic cleansing" — ridding areas of other ethnic groups as a Serbian way to control the territory.
At yesterday's peace talks, Karadzic agreed to a constitutional framework proposed by the mediators, who have
proposed dividing Bosnia into 10 provinces among the three main factions. Muslims, Serbs and Croats. Karadzic said the deal was subject to approval by the Bosnian Serbs' assembly within a week, a Yugoslav delegation statement said.
But Karadzic previously has agreed to local cease-fires that have been violated quickly by Serb forces. His critics have questioned his commitment to peace under anything less than his terms.
Bilana Plavic, vice president of the self-styled Bosnian Serb Republic, was asked by a British television interviewer if parliament will accept the deal.
"No," she said. "Absolutely no." She said that Karadzic could approve some details in the agreement but that he did not sign anything. "For him it is completely clear that the last word is the word of our parliament," she said.
Fred Eckhard, the mediators' spokesman, said the talks would move on to other points if the Bosniian Serb assembly quickly approved yesterday's accord rather than postpone peace another seven days.
Karadzic's acceptance came at the end of the three days of arm twisting by Yugoslav federal President Dobrica C索ci and Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, whose fervent nationalism the West has blamed for triggering war in Bosnia as well as Croatia.
"Friendly persuasion" was used on Karadzic, Cosic's spokesman Dragoslav Rancic said.
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