ABSTRACT
Europe has continued to suffer the consequences of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina which have proceeded over the last 12 months at varying levels of intensity. Conflict in Georgia and over Nagorno-Karabakh have persisted, but cease-fires in these cases have held more firmly and solutions are perhaps closer to being found. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), following a request from the UN Secretary-General, issued an ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs. All heavy weapons had either to be withdrawn from a circular area around Sarajevo with a radius of 20km or, if left within the circle, placed under UN control. On 22 April NATO issued an ultimatum demanding the immediate cessation of attacks on Goradze, the 3km withdrawal of all troops, and that UN convoys be allowed unimpeded entry to Goradze. There has been no progress towards resolving the question of the name of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as it is now called.
