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States
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States
?Art. 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States :The States as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: a) a permanent population; b) a defined territory; c) government; and d) capacity to enter into relations with other States.
Czechoslovakia) ?Merger (Yemen, Germany) ?Peace Treaties (Eastern European Countries)
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Yugoroatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina ?The Austro-Hungarian Empire ?The President Woodrow Wilson's idea of self -
?25 Sept. 1991, UN SC imposed an arms embargo on all Yugoslavia
?Yugoslavia National Army (JNA) forces laid siege to Croatia cities and towns, and war spread to Bosnia by early 1992
?EC Conference on Yugoslavia: a fiveperson arbitration commission (the Badinter Commission) included the heads of the constitutional courts of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Belgium
? 1980, the death of Tito, Serbia-Slobodan Milosevic, Croatia-Franjo Tudjman
? June 1990, Slovenia and Croatia Declared independence; the Yugoslav federal army attacked the Slovene militia but withdrew later; ethnic Serbs in Croatia and the federal Yugoslav army took up arms in the summer of 1991
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? December 16, 1991, EC guidelines for recognition of the new states in Yugoslavia
? Bosnia submitted its request for recognition
? January 1992, s self-proclaimed Assembly of the Serbian People of Bosnia-Herzegovina declared the independence of Serbian Republic of BosniaHerzegovina; ethnic Croats also declared two new entities in Bosnia
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?August 1991, the EC announced that it would not “recognize changes of frontiers which have not been brought about by peaceful means and by agreement”
? 1992-1995, conflicts between Serbs, Croats in Bosnia and the Muslim-led government for independence, some 200,000 dead including the massacre in July 1995 at Srebrenica
?17 Sept. 1991, Macedonia declared independence
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?14 Oct. 1991, Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence
?10 Nov. 1991, Serbs in Serb-dominated parts of Bosnia held a referendum for a “common Yugoslav state”
determination of peoples ?1919, the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye,
the South Slav State (the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes)
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? After WW II, Josip Broz (Tito), the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), six republics - Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Slovenia
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States emerged through following processes
? Decolonization ?Secession (Bangladesh, Eritrea, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania) ?Dissolution (Yugoslavia, USSR,