Vance, Cyrus Roberts

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US Democratic politician, secretary of state 1977–80. He was United Nations negotiator in the peace talks on Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992–93, resigning from the post due to ill health. Together with European Community negotiator David Owen, he devised the Vance–Owen peace plan for dividing the republic into ten semi-autonomous provinces. The plan was rejected by the Bosnian Serbs.

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