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TRANSCRIPT B GUS O'DONNELL/FRANCIS CORNISH/MARK PELLEW -
LONDON BACKGROUND BRIEFING
22 FEBRUARY 1993
In terms of the peace accord, I think we have made it clear on various occasions that if we can get agreement to a peace plan with an agreed map, then we do believe that NATO should go in there and we stand ready to play our part alongside, we hope, the
Americans.
FRANCIS CORNISH:
The backdrop is that American thinking has developed in ways which we find extremely helpful, persuasion, pressures, humanitarian
aid.
The Warren Christopher statement represented a development Bartholomew, their man, of thinking which was very good indeed.
is already at work. Thoroughly sensible for him to go first to Moscow and he for the United States and Churkin for Russia will be working pretty well alongside Vance and Owen so we don't start discussions with the Americans on Yugoslavia at this level with any massive problems to solve at all but there is a massive need
to keep in very close touch.
QUESTION:
You talked about the extension of the fast track procedure in
Congress and you said "not for very long".
for very long", three months, six months, a year?
What did you mean "not
GUS O DONNELL:
That is a very good question.
All sorts of figures are being
What we need at the moment is to
bandied around at the moment. keep the pressure up on the negotiators so if you start talking in