BRUSSELS, Jan 26 (Hina) - A Croatian delegation on Tuesday met the international mediator for succession to the former Yugoslavia, Arthur Watts, in Brussels. The delegation is attending a new round of talks on the succession to the
former state. Watts started the new round of talks on January 14, by meeting with Yugoslav and, a day later, with Slovene representatives. After today's meeting with the Croatian delegation, led by the head of the Government Office for Succession, Bozo Marendic, Watts will hold separate meetings with the delegations of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia on Wednesday and Thursday. Sources in Brussels say there is a possibility that a joint plenary session could be held once the successor states to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ) have presented their views and proposals at separate meetings with Watts. However, the date of the plenary meeting has not been d
BRUSSELS, Jan 26 (Hina) - A Croatian delegation on Tuesday met the
international mediator for succession to the former Yugoslavia,
Arthur Watts, in Brussels.
The delegation is attending a new round of talks on the succession
to the former state. Watts started the new round of talks on January
14, by meeting with Yugoslav and, a day later, with Slovene
representatives.
After today's meeting with the Croatian delegation, led by the head
of the Government Office for Succession, Bozo Marendic, Watts will
hold separate meetings with the delegations of Bosnia-Herzegovina
and Macedonia on Wednesday and Thursday.
Sources in Brussels say there is a possibility that a joint plenary
session could be held once the successor states to the former
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ) have presented
their views and proposals at separate meetings with Watts. However,
the date of the plenary meeting has not been determined yet.
The previous round of talks, held in November last year, ended
without any progress because the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
consistently refused the proposal already accepted by the four
other successor states.
Should there again be no agreement, possible solutions are
international arbitration or political pressure by the United
Nations on Yugoslavia as the country refusing to cooperate.
Yugoslavia is considering itself as the sole successor in title to
the former federation while the other successor states (Croatia,
Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia) believe they all have
the right to the succession to the former SFRJ, to the proportion
they financed it.
Their view is based on an assessment by the international Badinter
arbitration commission which established that it was dissolution
and not secession that happened in case of the former SFRJ.
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