ABSTRACT
The lengthy final stage of negotiations concerning the Vance-Owen plan for Bosnia-Hercegovina that dragged on through the spring of 1993 not only ended in failure but also exacerbated an ominous conflict that had been festering between Bosnia's Croat and Moslem ethnic communities. Croat-Moslem fighting spread throughout central Bosnia during the late fall of 1992 and early 1993, as each side jockeyed for control of territory. The response of the international community to the Serbian rejection of the Vance-Owen plan was typically muddled and divided. The initial response of the Bosnian-led government to the Owen-Stoltenberg plan ranged from numb resignation to panic. Russian foreign policy in Bosnia during the first part of 1994 illustrated the Yeltsin regime's love-hate relationship with Milosevic and the Bosnian Serbs. The events at Sarajevo and Gorazde also acquired heightened importance in Moscow and abroad because they closely paralleled Russia's effort to negotiate a special relationship within the framework of NATO's new Partnership-for-Peace.
