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Encyclopedia > Dayton Accords

The Dayton Agreement or Dayton Accords is the name given to the agreement at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio to end the war in the former Yugoslavia that had gone on for the previous three years, in particular the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina.


The conference took place from November 1 to November 21, 1995. The main participants were Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, Croatian President Franjo Tuđman, Bosnian President Alija Izetbegović, chief American negotiator Richard Holbrooke and General Wesley Clark.


The formal agreement was signed in Paris, France on December 14.


The present political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its structure of government were generally agreed upon as part of the Dayton accords.


External link

  • The General Framework Agreement (http://www.ohr.int/dpa/default.asp?content_id=380)

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frontline: the world's most wanted man: trying war criminals: dayton's mandate for apprehending war criminals (1983 words)
According to the Bosnian delegation's American legal adviser, former State Department official Paul Williams, the NATO-led international peacekeeping force in Bosnia "would neither interact with indicted war criminals nor tolerate their presence in the area of operation.
Expectations that the Dayton agreement would produce a breakthrough on apprehension of indicted war criminals were dashed almost immediately by the United States, Dayton's chief sponsor.
From the signing of the Dayton agreement in December 1995 until the summer of 1997, NATO avoided active measures to apprehend indicted war criminals.
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