Owen Stoltenberg Plan

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The Owen Stoltenberg Plan (also known as the Confederation Model or Union of the Republics of Bosnia and Herzegovina ) was an attempt to achieve peaceful unification in the Bosnian War . It was presented by EU mediator David Owen and UN special envoy Thorvald Stoltenberg in the summer of 1993 after the failure of the Vance Owen plan . He envisaged a loose confederation of a Serb , a Croat and a Bosniak state with a common state presidency and a union assembly of members of the three republics.

The plan was largely based on Serbian-Croatian proposals for the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina , which Slobodan Milošević and Franjo Tuđman had presented in June 1993, and included the most extensive territorial concessions to the Serbian side up to that point. The Serbs should receive 51 percent, the Bosniaks 32 percent and the Croats 17 percent of the area. Existing territorial conquests and ethnic displacement would thus be largely accepted. The Bosniak territories would be split into discontinuous parts that were supposed to be connected by corridors. The central government would only have tasks in the areas of international trade and foreign policy. Each of the three states would have the right to join international organizations and agreements. After a transitional period, the member states of the Union should also be given the opportunity to join the neighboring republics. The weak points to the disadvantage of the Bosniaks led to their rejection on September 29, 1993. Even the following small attempts at improvement did not change this.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Marie-Janine Calic : The war in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Causes, conflict structures, international attempted solutions (= Edition suhrkamp . 1943 = New series 943). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-11943-5 .
  2. ↑ Marcus Wenig: Possibilities and Limits of the Dispute Resolution of Ethnic Conflicts by the OSCE. Depicted on the conflict in the former Yugoslavia (= writings on international law. 124). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08704-6 , s. 214 .
  3. ↑ Annegret Bendiek: The conflict in the former Yugoslavia and European integration. An analysis of selected policy areas (= research on European integration. 8). VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4006-1 .
  4. ^ Anne Freimann: The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the intervention of the United Nations and the North Atlantic Defense Organization. GRIN, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-638-24840-2 , p. 28 .
  5. ^ Wilfried Hinsch , Dieter Janssen: Protecting human rights militarily. A plea for humanitarian intervention. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54099-6 , p. 138 .

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