Other states need to be aware of the importance of claiming legitimacy for their actions. This is vital if international and regional support is going to happen, and especially vital if the intervention is likely to cost many lives. That there is a right to launch interventions. In 1995, NATO mandated the military intervention in Bosnia. The legitimacy of the action was vital in forcing the Bosnian Serbs to accept defeat and agree to peace negotiations in Dayton, Ohio. In 1999, the bombing campaign in Serbia was also a legitimate action and so helped to persuade President Milosevic to withdraw his forces from Kosovo. However, President Mugabe’s Zimbabwe government has committed significant human rights abuses, However, the government can claim legitimacy and so any attempt by the west to intervene in Zimbabwean affairs would have disastrous consequences. The AU, China, and Russia would all condemn action as colonial aggression, and the safest policy thus far has been one of inaction.