[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 19 (Monday, February 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 28, 1994]
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          UNITY IN THE WESTERN WORLD MAY BRING PEACE TO BOSNIA

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, ``Operation Deny Flight'' was put in by 
NATO in October 1992. The idea was, it was the only thing that NATO 
could really agree on vis-a-vis the former area of Yugoslavia. That was 
that the war on the ground had been so terrible that the one thing we 
would do is make sure it did not explode into the air, to only magnify 
the terror on the ground.
  I am very pleased today to see that it appears that NATO finally, 
after 44 years, has acted together in saying, ``We meant what we said 
in October of 1992, and we will enforce what we said in February of 
1994.'' It is tragic that the planes did not leave NATO when they were 
given the warning to either land or they would be shot down, but they 
appeared to be on a bombing mission, they appeared to be testing NATO's 
will, and I must say how pleased I am that NATO found its spine and 
stayed there and showed its will.
  Let us hope that this means that the peace process will now only 
accelerate in Bosnia as the Western World is finally coming together 
and finally sticking together.

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