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U.S. CONSIDERS SECOND DAYTON CONFERENCE TO SALVAGE BOSNIAN PEACE
Copyright 1996 MSNBC


MSNBC on the Internet (http://www.msnbc.com) reports today that
with Bosnia-Herzegovina's first post-war elections scheduled for
Saturday, a senior Clinton administration official says a second
Dayton-style conference is being considered to keep the country's
ethnic factions from lapsing again into civil war.

In a story (http://www.msnbc.com/news/28440.asp) by MSNBC reporter
Michael Moran, assistant secretary of state for European affairs
John Kornblum expressed confidence that the elections would help
solidify the 10 months of peace which have prevailed in Bosnia.
But he conceded ethnic tensions remain high and said a new
Dayton-style conference is among the options the administration is
considering.

"We are determined to do everything necessary to make this work,"
said Kornblum. "And organizing such a conference is one of the
things we've thought about."

Kornblum, who helped engineer the first Dayton conference with
former Bosnia envoy Richard Holbrooke last November, left
Wednesday night to observe Saturday's elections. He said no final
decision on the conference option would be made until after the
vote.

At the White House, however, another Clinton official who deals
with Bosnia said one option would be to reconvene the Croatian and
Serbian presidents, along with newly elected Bosnian officials, at
a previously planned meeting on Bosnia in London in November. The
official, who requested anonymity, said Washington expected some
resistance to the proposal from European governments already
miffed at being sidelined at the first Dayton conference.

NOTE:  MSNBC reporter Moran will discuss this story in further
detail at 3:00pm (ET) on MSNBC on Cable.  In addition, MSNBC on
the Internet will feature an interview with U.S. envoy Richard
Holbrooke at 9:00pm (ET).
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Contact:
Lauren Leff, MSNBC, (201) 583-5010
Lloyd Trufelman, Trylon Communications, Inc., (212) 818-9151