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The threat of airstrikes wasn't made at the Lisbon agreement. He specifically said he was 'forced' by Serbs and Croats to sign the Lisbon Agreement. You're purposely mixing up the Daytona Agreement years later with the Lisbon Agreement.
You're being deceitful.
Um, what? He could say whatever he wants to say in 1996 after the fact. The Bush administration stance was clear.It is because according to his own words, he never "persuaded Alija to renounce his signature",
‘Drawing on my instructions to support whatever could be worked out between the European Community and the three Bosnian parties, I encouraged Izetbegovic to stick by what he’d agreed to.’
Next time link what you quote.
From the news article written in 1993 where Zimmerman says in hindsight what would have been better but that they made an error.
And here is the checkmate.Immediately after Mr. Izetbegovic returned from Lisbon, Mr. Zimmermann called on him in Sarajevo. The Bosnian leader complained bitterly that the European Community and Bosnian Serbs and Croats had pressured him to accept partition.
"He said he didn't like it," Mr. Zimmermann recalled. "I told him, if he didn't like it, why sign it?"
In retrospect, Mr. Zimmermann said in a recent interview, "the Lisbon agreement wasn't bad at all."
But after talking to the Ambassador, Mr. Izetbegovic publicly renounced the Lisbon agreement.
The Bush Administration pushed ahead with its plan for recognition.
"The policy was to encourage Izetbegovic to break with the partition plan," said a high-ranking State Department official who asked not to be identified. "It was not committed to paper. We let it be known we would support his Government in the United Nations if they got into trouble. But there were no guarantees, because Baker didn't believe it would happen."
We're dealing with hard facts, are we not?Oh give me a break.
I'm not discussing this subject with you further. You don't address what I say specifically and you have been caught being deceptive. I don't waste my time with people who are deceptive.We not only would have lost US support we would have faced US airstrikes, as I said.
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