This section comprises a selection of papers from September–December 1992. They have been chosen to give a sense of the broad picture against which the VOPP started to develop at the level of the two Co-Chairmen and within the Bosnia-Herzegovina Working Party chaired by Martti Ahtisaari. Despite constant fighting and a deterioration in the main humanitarian mission, with the destruction of water and energy supplies and disruption of food and essential provision convoys, limited progress in the negotiations was made. To achieve this, diplomacy was conducted at a non-stop pace in New York, Geneva and in and around Bosnia-Herzegovina. Political pressure was brought to bear in EC capitals, Washington, Saudi Arabia, Ankara, Belgrade and Zagreb. But the period was marked by intransigence in the fields of conflict and continued ethnic cleansing across Bosnia-Herzegovina with serious war crimes and crimes against humanity continuing to be committed. Meanwhile, some economic sanctions against Serbia were biting, like petrol for citizens, but not the armies while others were evaded. Also “numerous” breaches of the declared no-fly zone in Bosnia-Herzegovina were reported.