The warning from NATO ambassadors was in response to Friday's meeting between General Mladic and U.N. commander General Bernard Janvier.

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The pilot who flew the minister, Wing Commander N Harish, said Mr Fernandes was totally "at home" on board the plane.

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Douglas MacArthur, the U.N. forces commander, and his successor, Gen.

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But when the Canadian commander of U.N. peacekeeping forces in Rwanda desperately appealed for reinforcements to stop the killing, Washington, in particular, was not about to risk U.S. troops on another humanitarian mission in Africa.

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But first, the commander of the U.N.

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The Commander of the Dutch U.N. troops, Col.

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Although the deputy told his field commander of the finding, U.N. officials in New York were not informed.

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In December, shortly before the battalion shipped out for Afghanistan, Bravo Company commander Brent Jones gathered his 170 men outside the brick headquarters building at Camp Lejeune, N.

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