ZAGREB, June 20 (Hina) - The foreign ministers of the five successor states to the former Yugoslav federation will sign in Vienna on June 29 a recently initialled succession agreement, sources from the Brussels said on Wednesday. The
agreement will be signed in the presence of the international community's High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the international succession mediator, Arthur Watts, a source from Petritsch's Brussels office told Hina. Croatian sources have said Foreign Minister Tonino Picula and chief succession negotiator Bozo Marendic will attend the signing. The agreement on succession to the ex-Yugoslavia was initialled in Vienna on May 25 after intensive two-week negotiations. The negotiations took ten years to wrap up due to obstruction from the Yugoslav side. Three negotiating rounds were held after the fall of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic last y
ZAGREB, June 20 (Hina) - The foreign ministers of the five successor
states to the former Yugoslav federation will sign in Vienna on June
29 a recently initialled succession agreement, sources from the
Brussels said on Wednesday.
The agreement will be signed in the presence of the international
community's High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, and the
international succession mediator, Arthur Watts, a source from
Petritsch's Brussels office told Hina.
Croatian sources have said Foreign Minister Tonino Picula and chief
succession negotiator Bozo Marendic will attend the signing.
The agreement on succession to the ex-Yugoslavia was initialled in
Vienna on May 25 after intensive two-week negotiations. The
negotiations took ten years to wrap up due to obstruction from the
Yugoslav side. Three negotiating rounds were held after the fall of
former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic last year, in
Brussels in December and April and in Ljubljana in February.
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