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SUBJ: NEXT STEPS FOR THE U.S. ON YUGOSLAVIA

1. CONFIDENTIAL - ENTIRE TEXT.

2. THE EC HAS MAE AN ENORMOUS MISTAKE IN ITS DECEMBER

16 DECISION ON YUGOSLAVIA, A MISTAKE WHOSE RESULTS ARE
ALREADY EVIDENT IN TUDJMAN'S NEW AGGRESSIVENESS, IN
MILOSEVIC'S EFFORT TO DESTROY THE HAGUE CONFERENCE, AND
IN THE UNIVERSAL PREDICTIONS THAT WAR WILL BREAK OUT IN
BOSNIA. AT THE SAME TIME THE COMMUNITY'S ACTION HAS
SHIFTED THE TERRAIN IRREVOCABLY. THE U.S. OPPOSITION
TO UNSECURED RECOGNITION WILL LOSE MUCH OF ITS EFFECT
AS EUROPE RECOGNIZES SLOVENIA, CROATIA, AND THE OTHERS.
THE WORST THING WE COULD DO IS TO FOLLOW THE EC
LEMMING-LIKE INTO AN APPROACH WHICH COULD BRING
DISASTER. THE U.S. STILL HAS SOME SPECIFIC WEIGHT IN

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YUGOSLAVIA AND, EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF U.S. OR EC

MILITARY FORCE, THERE ARE STILL WAYS TO USE IT
EFFECTIVELY.

3. OUR FOREOS7 OBJECTIVE MUST CONTINUE TO BE THE

PREVENTION OF THE ESCALATION AND SPREAD OF THIS
GHASTLY WAR. HUMAN RIGHTS, SELF-DETERMINATION AND
INDEPENDENCE ALL LOSE THEIRW OF THE EC
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