How many UN peacekeeping troops are currently on the ground in Bosnia?
I believe in Bosnia there are about 22,000 UNPROFOR troops. Q: How many U.S. forces are actually in the region? There is a medical team and… Do you have any idea at all? A: It’s a very small number. Why don’t we get that for you later. Our main concentration of troops, and it’s very small, I think it’s only 300 is in Macedonia. That’s in furtherance of one of our primary goals here — I might point out a goal at which so far we’ve succeeded although we’ve gotten little notice for it, and that is the goal of preventing the conflict in Bosnia from spreading into other areas, into other nations. That’s one of our primary goals, and so far that goal has been met. You asked earlier about the Marine Amphibious Readiness Group (Correction: USS Nassau Mediterranean Amphibious Ready Group]. The USS Nassau Group is now in the Adriatic. Q: A number of Administration spokesmen have been trying today to dispel the notion that there has been some dramatic change in U.S. policy towards Bosnia–that
