Samuel Nunn: “I think we need to give the President some direction with some kind of resolution, but also some support and some…”

“I think we need to give the President some direction with some kind of resolution, but also some support and some flexibility. I know the President of the United States wants to lift the embargo. I do fear that over time we have not been assertive enough in that, and I would include as part of the overall strategy that we also need some carrots out there. The people of Serbia are suffering badly because of the embargo. I think we need to be much more aggressive, as the Senator from Michigan has said, about giving them some information about what their own Government is doing and what is going on in their name in Bosnia. So I think there is a whole set of strategies here that could be employed. And in dealing with the Russians, they may be willing to deal with both sticks and carrots--sticks being a selective lifting of the arms embargo against Bosnia, carrots being if the Serbian Serbs begin to put the kind of pressure on that must be put on the Bosnian Serbs-- then perhaps some selective lifting of the economic embargo against Serbia--although at this point in time I do not think that ought to be on the table. There are a lot of things that could be done here, but I believe that the Senate of the United States is simply not capable, on a piece of legislation, of getting the nuances right, because we cannot anticipate the reaction of all of our allies. We need to give the President direction, but we need to also give him some flexibility.”