Wahlgren

Wahlgren said, ' We sit down and talk about different tactics and different techniques we use and we try to learn from each other.

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Neil Wahlgren talks to Japanese crew members during military drills in the Sea of Japan.

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The secretary general did it without consultation, and the French defense minister announced it on television before the Secretariat, the Swedish government or Wahlgren himself had been informed.

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Wahlgren believed that a platoon would not be enough—a company was the smallest unit that should be sent to each safe area.

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Before he left, Wahlgren proposed that UNPROFOR place a renewed emphasis on humanitarian relief in Bosnia because this was still its primary mandate.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

At this time, Boutros-Ghali ordered the removal of General Wahlgren—simply because the French demanded that they have a general of their own as force commander.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

The next day Mladic and Bosnian general Sefer Halilovic agreed to a cease-fire in Srebrenica in the presence of the UNPROFOR commander, General Lars Eric Wahlgren, acting as mediator.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

“We had to strip one [ communications] system out of this HQ today to enable an UNMO [UN military observer] team to deploy to Zepa,” Wahlgren said.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

Before he left, Wahlgren proposed that UNPROFOR place a renewed emphasis on humanitarian relief in Bosnia because this was still its primary mandate.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000

“One cannot make peace and war at the same time,” Wahlgren said.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000