World IN BRIEF : BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA : U.N. Says Sarajevo Can’t Be Protected
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U.N. peacekeepers said they could not protect Sarajevo from Bosnian Serb shelling after their commanders forbade punitive NATO air strikes. U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko said U.N. special envoy Yasushi Akashi and Gen. Bernard Janvier, the chief U.N. commander, ruled out NATO intervention in retaliation for a Serb attack that killed 11 people in Sarajevo on Sunday. “They (Bosnian Serbs) got away with murder,” Ivanko added. With the U.N. peacekeeping role appearing increasingly in question, Akashi called a meeting for Friday in Paris of the top U.N. military and civilian officials in the region.
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