ACCESSION NUMBER:281557

FILE ID:POL110

DATE:05/03/93

TITLE:SERBIA MUST BACK UP WORDS WITH DEEDS, SAYS ALBRIGHT (05/03/93)

TEXT:*93050310.POL

SERBIA MUST BACK UP WORDS WITH DEEDS, SAYS ALBRIGHT



(Cites steps needed to support peace pledges)  (480)

By Paul Malamud

USIA Staff Writer

Washington -- Serbian leaders must back up their treaty commitments with

"deeds" if they wish to avoid further world condemnation and conflict, says

Madeleine Albright, U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations.



President Clinton "has made very clear that we still have a long way to go"

before the world can rely on peace pledges by Belgrade, Albright told a

congressional hearing May 3.  "We're looking for deeds....Signatures are

not enough."



To implement the peace treaty, the Serbs must comply with a cease-fire, end

the shelling of various cities in Bosnia-Hercegovina and permit free access

for humanitarian convoys, Albright said in testimony to two subcommittees

of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.



Recalling that the Serb leadership in the past has "said one thing and done

something else," Albright said the Clinton administration is now making a

"very deliberate effort to come up with a plan of action" if peace is not

achieved in Bosnia.

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Testifying at a hearing called to consider the concept of collective

security in the post-Cold War world, she said that the United States is

seeking to redefine the meaning of its own security following the end of

the Cold War.  "If the previous era was one of containment," she said, "the

new era is one of engagement."



Collective security, she said in her prepared remarks, is no abstraction.

"The security threat to America," she explained, is "a threat that only

collective security can ultimately manage."  She pointed to the current

dangers in a world "where weapons of mass destruction proliferate and

ethnic and regional conflicts trigger massive refugee flows" and where

there are also threats posed by  "enormous economic dislocations,

unacceptable human rights atrocities, and environmental catastrophes."



"Unless we...create the institutions and resources necessary to share the

burden of restoring international order," she said, "the United States will

stand exposed to an endless raid on its resources, its goodwill, its

soldiers,and, finally, its territorial integrity or the territorial

integrity of its allies."



Members of the United Nations "need to establish a much sounder basis for

financing and budgeting peacekeeping operations" she said, if the world

organization is to succeed in protecting collective security.



Praising U.N. actions in Bosnia, Albright cited U.N. authorization of

humanitarian airdrops, a no-fly zone and economic sanctions in response to

Serbian aggression.



Commenting on changes needed in the United Nations, she said that in order

to function as an efficient world peacekeeper, the world organization needs

to develop an "operations center" and an "intelligence capability" as well

as a "better sense of budgeting" in order to pay for its own military

operations.



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