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The Brioni Agreement is a document signed on the Brioni (Brijuni) islands (near Pula, Croatia) on July 7th 1991 by representatives of the Republic of Slovenia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under the political sponsorship of the European Community. With this document, the SFRY stopped all hostilities on Slovenian territory, thus ending the Slovenian War while Slovenia and Croatia froze independence activities for a period of three months. Brijuni, Brioni or Brioni Islands are a group of twelve small islands in the Northern Adriatic Sea, off the west coast of the Istrian peninsula in Croatia. ... Pula (Italian Pola) is the largest city in Istria, Croatia, at the southern tip of that peninsula. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Official language Serbo-Croatian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, Bosnian, Macedonian Capital Belgrade Largest city Belgrade Area (1991)  - Total  - % water Ranked xxst 255,804 km² Negligible Population  - Total (2004)  - Density Ranked xxth 20,522,972 80/km² Currency Yugoslav dinar Time zone  - in summer CET (UTC+1) CEST (UTC+2) National anthem... The European Community (EC), most important of three European Communities, was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. ... The Ten-Day War, sometimes called the Sloveninan War, was a brief military conflict between Slovenia and Yugoslavia in 1991 following Slovenias declaration of independence. ...


Participants in the negotiations

The delegation of the EC consisted of foreign ministers of three countries: Hans van den Broek (Netherlands), Jacques Poos (Luxembourg) and João de Deus Pinheiro (Portugal). Hans van den Broek  listen (born 11 December 1936 in Paris) is a Dutch politician. ... Jacques Poos (born 3 June 1935) is a Luxembourg politician. ... João de Deus Pinheiro, born 11 July 1945 in Lisbon, is a Portuguese politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–Peoples Party coalition; part of the European Peoples Party–European Democrats group. ...


The Yugoslav delegation consisted of Ante Marković, the president of the federal government, Petar Gračanin, minister of the interior, Budimir Lončar, minister of foreign affairs, vice-admiral Stane Brovet, assistant to the minister of defense, and members of the collective presidency of the SFRY, without both members of Serbian autonomous districts, but including Dr. Borisav Jović, then president of the presidency of SFRY. Ante Markovic was a Croatian-born, Yugoslav prime minister, from 1989-1991. ... Motto: none Anthem: Bože Pravde Capital Belgrade Largest city Belgrade Official language(s) Serbian1 Government Republic  - President Boris Tadić  - Prime Minister Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica Formation and independence    - Formation of Serbia 850   - Formation of the Serbian Empire 1345   - Independence from the Ottoman Empire July 13, 1878   - Serbia and Montenegro union... Borisav Jovic (born 1928) was a Serbian communist politician, who served as the Serbian member of the collective presidency of Yugoslavia during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ...


Slovenia was represented by Milan Kučan, president of the presidency of the republic, Lojze Peterle, prime minister, Dimitrij Rupel, minister of foreign affairs, Dr. Janez Drnovšek, then Slovenian representative in the Yugoslav presidency, and Dr. France Bučar, president of the Slovenian parliament. This Article shows the Agreement. Milan Kučan (January 14, 1941 - ) is a Slovene politician and statesman. ... Lojze Peterle (born 5 July 1948) is a Slovenian politician and diplomat. ... Dimitrij Rupel (born April 7, 1946 in Ljubljana) is a liberal politician from Slovenia and current foreign minister of that country. ... Handshake between Slovenian Prime Minister Janez DrnovÅ¡ek, on the right, and Jacques Delors Janez DrnovÅ¡ek (born May 17, 1950) is the current President of Slovenia. ...


Croatia was represented by Dr. Franjo Tuđman, president of the republic. Franjo TuÄ‘man (May 14, 1922 - December 10, 1999) was the first president of Croatia in the 1990s. ...


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