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Bosnia and Herzegovina-Croatia: Preliminary Agreement Concerning the Establishment of a Confederation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Treaties and Agreements
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1994

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* [Reproduced from the text provided by the U.S. Department of State. The Introductory Note is reproduced from the U.S. Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Volume 30, Number 11 (March 21, 1994), pp. 558-61.[On March 1, 1994, Haris Silajdzic, Prime Minister of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mate Granic,the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia and Kresimir Zubak, the head of the Bosnian Croat delegation at the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia, agreed to establish a high-level Transitional Committee to work on: (1) the Constitution of the Federation;(2) the Preliminary Agreement on the Confederation between the Republic of Croatia and the Proposed Federation;(3) an agreement concerning military arrangements in the territory of the Proposed Federation; and (4) transitional measures to expedite the establishment of the Confederation and Federation, including where possible the creation of governmental structures as outlined in the Framework Agreement signed on that date. [The Preliminary Agreement of March 18, 1994, reproduced below, is the result of the Transitional Committee's efforts.[The text of the Constitution of the Federation, endorsed on March 18, 1994, and approved by Parliament on March 30, 1994, appears at 33 I.L.M. 740 (1994). On May 11, 1994, in Vienna, Kresimir Zubak and Haris Silajdzic reached agreement to add an additional article to the Constitution concerning a Special Regime for Mixed Cantons. Agreement on the Criteria for the Definition of the Territory of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina,together with a map showing the Federation Cantons, was also reached on May 11, 1994. These additions are reproduced at the end of the Constitution at 33 I.L.M. 781 (1994).]