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Clinton "called on Mr. Bush to seek United Nations authorization of selective bombing of Serbian targets in Bosnia" and delivered strong rhetoric on the Bosnian crisis. [13] In early August, in response to Congressional debate, Clinton declared himself in favor "of lifting the arms embargo on the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia and Croatia ...
The Croatian War of Independence [I] was an armed conflict fought in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the Government of Croatia — which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) — and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending ...
Main topics of discussions were Croatian role in NATO and the Croatian accession to the European Union as well as economic relations between the U.S. and Croatia. Secretary Clinton called Croatia "a leader in Southeast Europe" that had well educated workforce, established infrastructure, great geopolitical location, adding that it was promising ...
The foreign policy of the Bill Clinton administration was of secondary concern to a president fixed on domestic policy.Clinton relied chiefly on his two experienced Secretaries of State Warren Christopher (1993–1997) and Madeleine Albright (1997–2001), as well as Vice President Al Gore.
The success of Operation Storm also represented a strategic victory in the Bosnian War as it lifted the siege of Bihać, [173] and allowed the Croatian and Bosnian leadership to plan a full-scale military intervention in the VRS-held Banja Luka area—one aimed at creating a new balance of power in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a buffer zone along ...
The March 1994 Washington Agreement, [32] ended the Croat–Bosniak War and created conditions for provision of US military aid to Croatia. [33] Croatia requested US military advisors from the Military Professional Resources Incorporated (MPRI) to provide training of civil-military relations, programme and budget services of the HV the same month, [34] and the MPRI training was licensed by the ...
Croatian war propaganda, even at the peak of the Croat-Bosniak war, still held the Serbs as the primary enemy. [295] Nonetheless, news stories were fabricated to incite hatred, [296] and state controlled television and radio pushed anti-Bosniak propaganda, escalating tensions between Bosniaks and Croats in Croatia. [297]
In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed Galbraith as the first United States ambassador to Croatia. [25] [26] Galbraith was actively involved in the Croatia and Bosnia peace processes. He was one of three authors of the "Z-4 plan," an attempt to negotiate a political solution to the Croatian War of Independence. [27]