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Bosnia Peace Operation: Progress Toward Achieving the Dayton Agreement's Goals

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 5, 1997
Report No. NSIAD-97-132
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Summary:

Peacekeeping operations in Bosnia--estimated to cost the United States at least $7.7 billion--have helped Bosnia to take the first steps toward achieving the Dayton Agreement's goal of a unified, democratic country. However, the leaders of Bosnia's three major ethnic groups have yet to embrace reconciliation, and the country remains politically divided and economically moribund. NATO-led military forces have allowed the peace process to move forward and Bosnians to return to normal life. The cease-fire has held, general security has improved, schools and shops have reopened, and families have started to repair damaged houses. Yet the transition to a multiethnic government has not occurred. Major obstacles to the vision embodied in the Dayton Agreement remain, particularly the lack of cooperation among Bosnia's political leaders, and experts say that full political and social reconciliation in Bosnia will be a long and difficult process.

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