Talk:Vance plan

Vance plan ≠ ceasefire agreements signed in Geneva or Sarajevo
The Vance plan was the UN's plan for dealing with UN protected and related areas in Croatia. The author of the concept was Marach Goulding. Cyrus Vance helped with its preparation and implementation. This plan was to be recommended to the UNSC after the unconditional ceasefire has been agreed. The Vance plan are not Geneva and Sarajevo ceasefire agreements. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 09:50, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The article unambiguously identifies that the plan was approved by the UNSC on 15 December by UNSCR 724, i.e. before a lasting ceasefire was in place, as supported by the sources offered in the article (Ramcharan, p.59). The Geneva Accord and the Implementation Agreement/Sarajevo Agreement were integral to the plan as explicitly supported by sources offered in the article (Trbovich, p.299) specifically linking the two documents to the relevant UNSC resolutions, and the offered sources explicitly supporting the claim that the Implementation Agreement and the Vance plan were synonymous (Balkan Battlegrounds, p.106). Further offered sources also explicitly link the Geneva Accord to the Vance plan (Armatta, p.196)--Tomobe03 (talk) 11:00, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for accepting one part of my comment by inclusion of M. Goulding into the text of the article. This plan was UN's peacekeeping plan and most of other events were somehow linke to it. Yes, the ceasefire agreements were also directly linked to this plan because, as per my above comment, only after the unconditional ceasefire has been agreed the plan was to be recommended to the UNSC. But I believe that it is incorrect that any of ceasefire agreements was actually Vance Plan. Are there any other sources which support such assertion? --Antidiskriminator (talk) 11:57, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 * You have already been provided multiple sources above. Please provide sources to the contrary per WP:BURDEN if you think you have a case here.--Tomobe03 (talk) 12:21, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The plan was accepted and an advance party of 50 liaison officers dispatched (not merely recommended) by the UNSCR 724 on 15 December 1991 as I already pointed out - ahead of the ceasefire agreement (the Implementation Agreeement), agreed upon by Tuđman (on 25 Dec) and Milošević (on 31 Dec) and signed on 2 January 1992.--Tomobe03 (talk) 12:37, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No, I don't think you provided multiple sources for the following assertion: "In the final ten-day round of meetings Vance negotiated another ceasefire agreement ....The agreement would later become known as the Vance plan,... or Sarajevo Agreement." It is obviously incorrect. The ceasefire agreement is not Vance plan. You presented only one source written by unknown authors (Balkan Battlegrounds, p.106) which you say directly supports this assertion ( please be so kind to provide a quote ).
 * No, per WP:BURDEN "The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material". It is you who added the above assertion to the article. I challenged it. It is, for now, poorly sourced. Please reply to my above question:" Are there any other sources which support such assertion?"
 * I think that the rest of the text of the article and WP:COMMONSENSE contradict this assertion. What was presented to UNSC, accepted and implemented was not Sarajevo ceasefire agreement. It was the opposite. By signing the ceasefire agreements conflicting parties also confirmed the acceptance of the Vance Plan. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 15:20, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Have you noticed the short names in brackets followed by a "p." and a page number above? Those are sources providing direct support. I have therefore acted within WP:BURDEN and provided sources. I am glad that you have an opinion on this item, but it appears to be entirely baseless as in case of UNPA a while ago. Let me draw this for you:

Vance shuttle diplomacy --> Geneva Accord --> UNSCR 721 --> SecGen Report of 11 Dec (spells out Vance proposal) --> UNSCR 724 (adopts the report of 11 Dec --> Vance shuttle diplomacy (Tuđman and Milošević accept on 25 and 31 Dec) --> Implementation Agreement --> UNSCR 727 (explicitly says the parties take their commitments from Geneva and Sarajevo events) --> UNSCR 740 (establishes the ceasefire holds and deploys UNPROFOR)

Let me know if you can't follow this. Also let me know if you have divined that the Vance plan was a completely different document adopted by a different process. This type of behaviour you are engaging is disruptive per WP:HOUND.--Tomobe03 (talk) 15:37, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
 * No. The short names in brackets do not directly support the assertion which equalize Vance plan and agreement on Sarajevo ceasefire (except one according to you). You failed to address the issues I presented and to reply to my questions:
 * Are there any other sources which support the above assertion which equalize Vance plan and Sarajevo ceasefire?
 * Will you please be so kind to provide a quote from the source (not verifiable online) written by unknown authors (Balkan Battlegrounds, p.106) which you used to support the above assertion which equalize Vance plan and Sarajevo ceasefire?
 * I look forward to your replies on my questions which I need to better present more detailed explanation about this issue. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 19:44, 13 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes indeed, this neatly follows well documented behaviour you exhibited against WP:ARBMAC drawing two instances of sanctions. You insist on me providing more and more sources regardless of sources provided in the article. If you cannot access Balkan Battlegrounds online, go to a library. Or buy the book.


 * You insist on other people having to answer to you but you ignore any questions you really have no answer to. So let me restate them:
 * Do you deny that the Geneva Accord is closely linked to formulation of the Vance plan?
 * Do you deny that the Implementation (Sarajevo) Agreement is closely linked to implementation of the Vance plan?
 * Do you deny that the Vance plan was presented in a UNGSR and adopted by the UNSC as described and referenced in the article?
 * Do you think that the Vance plan was a different document than one referenced in the article?
 * Do you think it was adopted through another mechanism and which?--Tomobe03 (talk) 10:10, 14 April 2013 (UTC)