The Graz agreement was a partition agreement signed between Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić and Bosnian Croat leader Mate Boban[note 1] on 6 May 1992 in the town of Graz, Austria.[1] The agreement was meant to divide Bosnia and Herzegovina between Republika Srpska and the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.[1] The largest group in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosniaks, did not take part in the agreement and were not invited to the negotiations.[1][note 2]
Franjo Tuđman, in a letter to United States senator Robert Dole, later presented the agreement as part of a Conference on Bosnia and Herzegovina sponsored by the European Community.[1]
[edit] Division
The Croat administration would receive the territory of Banovina of Croatia that is delineated in the Cvetković–Maček Agreement of 1939.[1] In between the newly expanded Croatia and Serbia would be a small Bosniak buffer state, pejoratively called "Alija's Pashaluk" by Croatian and Serbian leadership, after Bosnian president Alija Izetbegović.[2]
[edit] Reception
According to Vreme’s military analyst Miloš Vasić the Graz agreement was "the single most important document of the war" and was meant to limit conflict between Serb and Croat forces by allowing both parties to concentrate on taking Bosniak territory from the Bosnian forces.[3][4] The agreement was seen as Bosnian Croats betraying their Bosniak allies.[1] It was also seen as a sequel to the Karađorđevo agreement by the ICTY judgement in the Blaškić case.[5] A Washington Post editorial compared the agreement to the Hitler-Stalin pact that divided Poland.[1]
- ^ Mate Boban was the only non-Serb leader to recognize Republika Srpska.[1]
- ^ At the time Bosniaks accounted for 44 percent of Bosnia and Herzegovina's 4.4 million population and dominated the current government.[2]
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