The NATO Secretary-General spelled out exactly what Bosnian Serbs must do to avoid further air strikes.
CNN: NATO warns Bosnian Serbs: obey demands or face air strikes
Signals from the military leadership of the Bosnian Serbs, however, have been more defiant, he said.
The Bosnian Serbs have not allowed humanitarian agencies access to the suspected mass grave sites.
Bosnian Serbs have responded by deserting the dinar for the more reliable domestic product.
Bosnian Serbs, who object to being governed by their war enemies, would prefer Sarajevo remain a divided city.
For a change, it's the Bosnian Serbs who are most interested in a cease-fire, because they are loosing ground.
Both fell to the Bosnian Serbs in July, sending thousands of refugees fleeing.
After the second world war, ethnic Germans were driven out and their empty villages repopulated, mainly by Bosnian Serbs.
These election results suggest that many Bosnian Serbs agree with Mr Dodik's views.
At the height of the shelling of Sarajevo, the Bosnian Serbs poured 3, 500 shells on the city a day.
If Bosnian Serbs believe themselves to be the victims of biased western interference, their hostility to Dayton will grow.
But the Bosnian Serbs may still be tempted by chauvinism as long as that cause is championed in Belgrade.
Among them are Radovan Karadzic, the former president of the Bosnian Serbs, and Ratko Mladic, once their military chief.
The Bosnian Serbs cannot look to Serbia itself for military help because its army is entangled in the Kosovo crisis.
Of 78 men known to have been indicted by the Hague tribunal (mostly Bosnian Serbs), 68 still remain at large.
Earlier, NATO had resumed its bombing campaign after the Bosnian Serbs refused a demand to pull weapons away from the city.
In 1996, U.N. sanctions against the Bosnian Serbs were suspended following their compliance with conditions laid down by the Security Council.
Officially, the Bosnian Serbs gave up their quest to join Serbia, and Bosniaks gave up their dream of a unitary state.
It could force Serbia proper to abandon its role as peace broker and instead come to the help of the Bosnian Serbs.
It ordered air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs which finally forced them to return to the negotiating table and sign the Dayton accord.
There is no agreement yet on what kind of central government -- if any -- the Bosnian Serbs and Muslims might establish within Bosnia.
Monday's meeting was intended to repair the rift which opened up when the Bosnian Serbs severed ties with NATO over those arrests last month.
CNN: Bosnia talks founder as key Bosnian Serb fails to turn up
His account supports allegations of war crimes by Bosnian Serbs that have sparked intense disagreement at the peace talks under way near Dayton, Ohio.
With the Bosnian Serbs seemingly giving a powerful mandate to their politicians to reject such compromise, any agreement looks like being a long way off.
Early Wednesday, Bosnian Serbs fired on a NATO plane near Sarajevo.
CNN's Peter Arnett, in Pale, watched as the Bosnian Serbs removed the weapons, and said the soldiers appeared in good spirits and seemed to be making progress.
CNN: NATO extends deadline for Bosnian Serbs to move weapons
Last week British troops snatched two Bosnian Serbs, who between them had run a network of prison camps in which Muslims and Croats were tortured and murdered.
But U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright came to the Council bearing tales of atrocities in the enclave after it was overrun by the Bosnian Serbs.
By contrast, most Bosnian Muslims (or Bosnjaks) would like to see greater centralisation within Bosnia but the Bosnian Serbs, who are backed by Mr Kostunica, are opposed to that.
Breaking ranks with the Bosnian Serbs' wartime leader, Radovan Karadzic, she had offered some real co-operation with the peace plan drawn up three years ago this week in Dayton, Ohio.
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