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INFO IMMEDIATE BELGRADE, MOSCOW, EC POSTS
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MDHIAN 8675
FROM PRIVATE SECRETARY
FOREIGN SECRETARY'S DISCUSSIONS WITH SWEDISH FOREIGN MINISTER, 26 APRIL
SUMMARY
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GOOD NATURED DISCUSSION FOCUSSED ON YUGOSLAVIA, ON WHICH SECRETARY OF STATE DESCRIBED HINDSGAVL EC DISCUSSION. SWEDISH CONCERN, SHARED BY SECRETARY OF STATE, AT SERB PRESSURE ON (SWEDISH) CSCE MONITORS IN KOSOVO. WELCOME FOR RESULTS OF RUSSIAN REFERENDUM. MRS AF UGGLAS SUMMARISED HER RECENT VISIT TO THE SOUTHERN CIS, AND URGED MORE SUPPORT FOR BALTICS. SECRETARY OF STATE EMPHASISED IMPORTANCE OF EARLY PROGRESS ON ENLARGEMENT: SOME DISCUSSION OF DETAILED ASPECTS OF SWEDISH APPLICATION.
DETAIL
YUGOSLAVIA
2. THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUMMARISED RESULTS OF THE GYMNICH DISCUSSION. HE SET OUT THE OBJECTIONS TO ARMING THE BOSNIAN MOSLEMS, AND THE DISADVANTAGES OF DIRECT MILITARY ACTION. ALL OPTIONS WERE UNDER CONSIDERATION. MRS AF UGGLAS NOTED THAT EVEN PACIFISTS IN SWEDEN WERE ADVOCATING BOMBING OF SERB POSITIONS. BOSNIA WAS ATTRACTING MUCH PUBLICITY. SHE AGREED THAT IT WAS VITAL SANCTIONS SHOULD WORK. THERE WERE FIRST SIGNS THAT THE CSCE OBSERVERS IN KOSOVO, INCLUDING SWEDES, WERE COMING UNDER PRESSURE FROM THE SERBIAN AUTHORITIES. (THE SECRETARY OF STATE SAID THIS WOULD BE SERIOUS.) ON DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS, SWEDEN OPPOSED WITHDRAWAL OF OUR MISSIONS FROM BELGRADE. SHE WONDERED WHETHER THE LONDON CONFERENCE SHOULD BE RECONVENED. THE SECRETARY OF STATE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE IDEA WAS ATTRACTING SUPPORT. A RECONVENED CONFERENCE MIGHT MAKE SENSE AT SOME STAGE AS PART OF A WIDER PACKAGE, BUT SHOULD NOT PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR EXPLOITATION BY KARADZIC. THE SECRETARY OF STATE DESCRIBED LORD OWEN'S CONTINUING
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