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       A Declaration and Agenda for Action were unanimously agreed. The Dec-
laration affirmed the commitment to global partnership against child abuse which
was recognized as an absolute and fundamental violation of the rights of the
child. It restated that all the signatories to the Convention were required to pro-
tect children from abuse and promote physical and psychological recovery of
those already victimized. It affirmed the need for strong laws, and the need for
resources and political commitment to enforce them. It confirmed the need to
build and promote partnership between all levels of society to counter this form
of violence. It called for the highest priority to be given to action against child
abuse, to develop and implement comprehensive planning and programs that ad-
dress the issue through a diverse but complementary range of strategies.


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                    Balkans after Milosevic: Still Perilous Waters

       The removal of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia has opened new opportuni-
ties for peace in the Balkan region, but also created a fluid situation where
treacherous problems abound.
       For some time, Western strategic thinking on the area has involved the no-
tion that if Mr. Milosevic could be ousted, other problems would fall away. But
for a variety of reasons including the depth of anti-Serbian feeling engendered
by nine years of war and the record of Mr. Milosevic’s successor little soothing
balm has immediately been felt.
       Vojislav Kostunica, the new Yugoslav president, has made clear concilia-
tory signals toward Croatia, which has long battled Belgrade for independence,
and Montenegro, where secessionist currents are strong. Yet his gestures have
not convinced a skeptical region.
       "There has been tremendous positive change in Serbia, but it has not had
the immediate positive impact on the region that we would have hoped," said
William D. Montgomery, the Budapest-based United States ambassador with re-
sponsibility for Yugoslavia.
       A new era in the Balkans has opened Mr. Milosevic, who propelled
Yugoslavia into war nine years ago, is gone; Franjo Tudjman, the Croatian
president who fanned Mr. Milosevic's flames, is dead; Alija Izetbegovic, the
outgunned and stubborn Bosnian president, quit last weekend. It is not surpris-
ing that expectations are high.
       But it is not yet clear that Mr. Kostunica is able, or willing, to deliver
what America wants. His past nationalism makes some neighbors skeptical, his
popularity in the West makes other neighbors envious, and his arrival has come
so late in the process of Yugoslav disintegration that it is far from clear that the
process can be arrested.
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