translation.bs: Holbrooke, koji je radio za svakog od demokratskih predsjednika još od kraja 1960-tih godina, imenovan je 1994. za pomoćnika državnog sekretara za evropske i kanadske poslove, tokom vrhunca sukoba koji su propratili raspad bivše Jugoslavije.
translation.en: Holbrooke, who worked for every Democratic president since the late 1960s, was appointed assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs in 1994, at the height of the conflicts that accompanied the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.