the London Conference on July 21 and threatened broad-based air strikes if the safe areas were attacked again.When the Bosnian Serbs tested this ultimatum, NATO undertook an intensive month-long bombing campaign.

• In late July, President Clinton decided that the changes on the ground and the new resolve displayed by NATO provided the basis for an all-out diplomatic effort to end the conflict. In early August, he sent his National Security Adviser, Anthony Lake, to present a U.S.peace initiative to our NATO Allies and the Russians.
• U.S.-led mediation produced an agreement by the parties to basic principles of a settlement as well as a cease-fire which went into effect in October. Proximity peace talks toward settlement began in Dayton, Ohio on November 1.
• On November 21, the parties agreed to a settlement, which will be implemented following the signing of the agreement in Paris on December 14, 1995.

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