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To: John Lacelle who wrote (12363)	6/18/1999 3:14:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

In view of this information, are there any comments from this international thread on the fact that it was actually the former German foreign minister H.D. Genscher who first officialised the break-up of Yugoslavia by starting diplomatic exchange with Slovenia and Croatia long time ago in his time. In my recollection things went like this: Both nowadays states claimed independence, no answer from anybody internationally for quite some time (maybe several weeks?), again news about independence claims, then Genscher sends diplomats, and only now, slowly, reluctantly, other Western Countrys followed up. Was this well-done? Why did this person vanish so fast from politics after that? MNI.

To: John Lacelle who wrote (12363)	6/18/1999 3:23:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

The main reason that they were about the only friend that we had in the Balkans was that the Germans recruited others in Yugoslavia and the surrounding area based on anti- Serbian sentiment, since the Serbs dominated the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and had expansionist aspirations. To put it another way, it isn't so much that the other nationalities were pro- German, as that they were anti- Serb. The Ustashe, it is true, were pretty vicious, though...Anyway, they threw in the towel because they pretty much got a deal that they could live with. Had it been a matter of national survival, I am sure it would have been different...Besides, now they have a bunch of people to shoot at if there is another crisis...