'Boyish' UN front man faces impossible task
In the early days, I-For, the Nato implementation force, viewed his office with hostility (while exploiting the possibility of off-loading responsibility on to civilians), though relations swiftly improved and remain warm. Yet Mr [Carl] Bildt, who is 49 but looks 10 years younger, has on occasion su...
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| Published in | Independent (London, England : 1986) |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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London (UK)
Independent Digital News & Media
08.05.1996
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| ISSN | 0951-9467 |
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| Summary: | In the early days, I-For, the Nato implementation force, viewed his office with hostility (while exploiting the possibility of off-loading responsibility on to civilians), though relations swiftly improved and remain warm. Yet Mr [Carl] Bildt, who is 49 but looks 10 years younger, has on occasion succeeded where the big guns of I-For failed. He persuaded the Bosnian government, for example, finally to release its prisoners of war by threatening to postpone a donor conference. His efforts are now directed towards extinguishing the hardline flame personified by Radovan Karadzic, the president of the Bosnian-Serb Republika Srpska indicted for war crimes and shunned by Mr Bildt and I-For. Mr Karadzic is the lurking presence pervading all dealings with the Serb entity in Bosnia; he is subject to arrest by I-For, should they happen across him. Mr Bildt clearly hopes they will. "He is poisoning the political atmosphere," Mr Bildt said in an interview in Banja Luka, where he has just opened an office, to Mr Karadzic's fury. "He is pushing isolationist policies . . . and fuelling more hardline views on the other side." |
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| ISSN: | 0951-9467 |