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Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 12:47-0400
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Subject: President's REmarks in Photo Op  5.21.93

                           THE WHITE HOUSE

                    Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                               May 21, 1993     

	     
                       REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
                IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY WITH THE CABINET
	     
                           The Cabinet Room

10:15 A.M. EDT
	     
	     Q	  Mr. President, have you reached agreement with the 
Russians on a Bosnia policy?
	     
	     THE PRESIDENT:  Well, Secretary Christopher is talking 
to Foreign Minister Kozyrev today, and we will try to reach an 
agreement about what we do next.  As you know, the United States is 
skeptical that we'll be able to satisfactorily resolve this within 
the framework that has been proposed, but we do want to work with our 
allies and we're trying our best to reach a joint position and I hope 
we can do it.
	     
	     Q	  Are you still ruling out safe havens?
	     
	     THE PRESIDENT:  Well, I don't want to see the United 
States get in a position where we are recreating Northern Ireland or 
Lebanon or Cyprus or anything else.  I wouldn't -- there may be some 
potential down the road for something to be done in connection with 
the peacekeeping operation, but I think it's something we have to be 
very skeptical about.  We don't want our people in there basically in 
a shooting gallery.
	     
	     Q	     the issue, though, for now of the land the Serbs 
have grabbed by force in favor of the idea of this containment?
	     
	     THE PRESIDENT:  I will say what I said from the very 
beginning.  Our fundamental interests here, the United States' 
interests, are two.  We want the conflict to be contained, and we 
want the slaughter and the ethnic cleansing to stop.  We believe in 
order to get that done ultimately there will have to be some 
reasonable borders -- some political solution to this which has a 
reasonable territorial component.  And we'll just have to see what 
happens over the next few weeks.

	     Q	  Thank you.

                                 END10:22 A.M. EDT