The Bosnian Serbs cannot look to Serbia itself for military help because its army is entangled in the Kosovo crisis.
The Kosovo crisis seems to be stumbling toward a relatively peaceful conclusion and the world economy appears to have avoided a much-feared recession.
The Iowa caucuses are still ten months away, and it is hard to see the Kosovo crisis dominating the public mood for all that time.
For the moment, Mr Chirac, basking in record approval ratings of up to 79% for his handling of the Kosovo crisis, appears not too worried.
The alliance's hope of surviving the Kosovo crisis with head held high will depend, among other things, on securing an outcome which salvages some of the values it is built on.
But she said she could not speak out on issues like tolerance without addressing the current crisis in Kosovo.
The European Union is to hold an informal summit in Klagenfurt, Austria, to discuss the world economy, EU expansion into eastern Europe and the crisis in Kosovo.
Although in its resolutions the Security Council has labelled the crisis in Kosovo a threat to peace and security in the Balkans, it has pointedly not authorised the use of force against Yugoslavia.
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In 1999, at the height of the crisis in Kosovo, Richard gave an interview in which he addressed the question of why the United States was engaged in bringing peace to that war-torn corner of the world.
EU, by American strictures, has been as muddled and spineless as ever over the simmering crisis in the Serbian province of Kosovo.
He was supreme allied commander of NATO during the 1999 Kosovo campaign and now sits on the board of the International Crisis Group.
He has revelled in his recent role as Europe's special envoy for Kosovo, though he has yet to make a dent in the latest Balkan crisis.
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