[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 184 (Saturday, November 18, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S17441]
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                            PEACE IN BOSNIA

  Mr. KERREY. Mr. President, with additional time, I would love to 
discuss this situation with the Senator from Indiana. It is a very 
difficult situation. I was in the Krajina Valley a couple days after 
the Croatian Army had driven back the Croatian Serbs and several 
hundred thousand estimated, a couple hundred thousand civilians left 
that valley, and a day later 120 millimeter rockets came into a market 
in Sarajevo and killed another 40 civilians. And not long after that a 
President Clinton-led NATO engaged in airstrikes, and it was not long 
before you could fly into Sarajevo.
  We see the makings of peace in the region. It is an unprecedented 
event with the United States leading in a diplomatic effort, Ambassador 
Holbrooke going around the clock with unimaginable stamina to try to 
negotiate a settlement.
  I listened to the House debate last night on this subject, and I must 
say I hope our own words do not make it more difficult to get an 
agreement and we do not find ourselves right back in the soup. I think 
it is a long shot to get a peace agreement. No question it is going to 
be difficult to get, but I think in any evaluation of what has gone on 
in Bosnia in the last 60 days you almost have to begin and end with 
praise for President Clinton's ability to lead NATO and to lead to 
where we are today, which is a significant reduction of violence in 
that part of the world.

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