Blockade Against Yugoslavia Lifted
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From Times Wire Reports
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Western European Union military organization terminated their naval blockade in the Adriatic after the U.N. Security Council voted Tuesday to lift trade sanctions against Serbian-led Yugoslavia. The two groups said in a statement in Brussels that their vessels had challenged 74,000 ships since the mission started in 1993, and six ships were caught trying to break the sanctions.
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