INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Overview: The complex constitutional arrangements of the Federation and new Republic will require a certain amount of readiness to work together from the constituent areas of B-H. Such readiness has been close to nonexistant on the part of the two secessionist Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat entities. Determination on the part of the international community not to permit extermination of the Bosnjak population, NATO watchfulness that Croatia and the Former Republic of Yugoslavia fulfill their commitments, and prosecution of those guilty of war crimes should open a road for those willing to work together to build a future which does not rest on the bones of their former neighbors.Relations with Croatia: B-H relations with Croatia have been difficult. The B-H branch of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman's HDZ has been at the head of the movement in Herzegovina to break Bosnian Croat-dominated areas off from B-H and join with Croatia. On several occasions, Tudjman is reported to have agreed with Serbian leader Milosevic to partition B-H between them. U.S. and European pressure produced Tudjman and Bosnian Croat agreement to the 1994 Federation, and Tudjman's initials on the Dayton Agreement. Croatian forces cooperated with Bosnian government and Bosnian Croat forces in the successful 1995 offensives against Serbian Republic forces.
Relations with the Former Republic of Yugoslavia: Western determination and the UN sanctions imposed in 1992 brought Milosevic to give up his plans for a Greater Serbia, cut off assistance to the Serbian Republic, and to exert pressure on them to consent to the Dayton Agreement.
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