BELGIUM: RUSSIA AND NATO DISCUSS PLANS TO BRING TOGETHER A FORCE TO IMPLEMENT AN EVENTUAL BOSNIA PEACE SETTLEMENT

Record ID: 646115

  • Title: BELGIUM: RUSSIA AND NATO DISCUSS PLANS TO BRING TOGETHER A FORCE TO IMPLEMENT AN EVENTUAL BOSNIA PEACE SETTLEMENT
  • Date: 15th October 1995
  • Summary: MONS, BELGIUM (OCTOBER 15, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. LV EXTERIOR NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION MILITARY HEADQUARTERS 0.04 2. SV SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER IN EUROPE GENERAL GEORGE JOULWAN (LEFT) GREETING HEAD OF RUSSIAN PEACE FORCE PLANNERS COLONEL GENERAL LEONID SHEVSTOV 0.21 3. CUTAWAY OF GUARD 0.23 4. SV JOULWAN AND SHEVSTOV ENTER BUILDING / LOOK AT MAP OF BOSNIA (SHEVSTOV LEFT) (3 SHOTS) 0.59 5. SV SHEVSTOV SIGNING BOOK / SHAKING HANDS WITH JOULWAN (2 SHOTS) 1.16 6. SLV SHEVSTOV AND JOULWAN WALKING TO MICROPHONES 1.28 7. SV JOULWAN SPEAKING (ENGLISH) 2.03 8. SCU SHEVSTOV TALKING ABOUT RUSSIAN EFFORT IN PEACE AGREEMENT (RUSSIAN) 2.33 9. SLV DELEGATES RE-ENTERING BUILDING 2.39 SEQUENCE 7 TRANSCRIPT: JOULWAN: "WITH NATO AND RUSSIA WORKING TOGETHER, WE GREATLY INCREASE THE POSSIBILITY FOR PEACE IN BOSNIA. I ASSURE YOU GENERAL, OF OUR BEST INTENTIONS TO WORK WITH YOU TO ACHIEVE THAT END. LET ME ALSO ASSURE YOU OF AN OPEN, HONEST DIALOGUE AND PROFESSIONAL EXCHANGE OF IDEAS BETWEEN YOU AND ME AND BETWEEN YOUR DELEGATION AND THIS STAFF." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 30th October 1995 12:00
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  • Location: MONS, BELGIUM
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  • Country: Belgium
  • Reuters ID: LVA4N3SO2HHT6LCDDRJQB33GWSX2
  • Story Text: Russia and NATO, breaking post-Cold War ice, discussed on Sunday (October 15) plans to bring together a 60,000-strong force to implement an eventual Bosnia peace settlement.

    "Russia is a great country with an important role to play in Europe and the world," Supreme Allied Commander in Europe General George Joulwan told the head of the Russian peace force planners, Colonel General Leonid Shevtsov when they met in Mons, Belgium.

    "With Russia and NATO working together we can assure the peace in Bosnia. We truly are one team focused on one mission. Peace in Bosnia," he told the Russian planners as they arrived to install themselves at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO's) military headquarters.

    Russia has offered up to 20,000 troops to the force but insisted they will not come under direct NATO control.

    Shevtsov replied that his aim was to create the smoothest command structure for the multi-national army going into Bosnia.

    "We hope to find acceptable mechanisms for including NATO countries and non-members of NATO under equal circumstances. We today touched a little bit on these problems," he said after meeting Joulwan in his private office.


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