White House Daily Briefing

White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers announced that earlier today U.S. aircraft, as part of a NATO mission authorized by the United Nations, carried out an air strike in the vicinity of Sarajevo. Myers reported that, in recent days, Bosnian Serb troops have increasingly violated the exclusion zone. As the situation has worsened, the United States has urged the United Nations and its NATO allies to take action if the violations did not cease. Myers said the Administration has called on the Bosnian Serbs to accept the peace proposal put forward by the Contact Group. If they continue to reject the proposal, the Contact Group, with the full support of the United States, will continue to pursue tightened enforcement of sanctions against Bosnian Serb territory, and final planning for strict enforcement of extension of exclusion zones. The Contact Group has also stated clearly that if the Bosnian Serbs continue to reject the proposal, a U.N. decision to lift the arms embargo could become close