Side-Letters to the Dayton Peace Accords

Text of Side-Letters to the Dayton Peace Accords signed in Paris on December 14, 1995 and superceding side-letters which accompanied the agreement text initialled in Dayton, Ohio on November 21, 1995. Released by the Office of Public Communication, Bureau of Public Affairs, February 16, 1996.

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THE DELEGATION OF THE FR OF YUGOSLAVIA  

President Slobodan Milosevic, Head of the Delegation of the FR of Yugoslavia

Dear Mr.President,

We write to you regarding the Peace Agreement and the documents which are to be initialled at the conclusion of the peace negotiations in Ohio. Since it is requested, in a number of documents prepared for adoption, that the FR of Yugoslavia be the guarantor of the obligations taken by the RS in the peace process, we kindly ask you to assume, on behalf of the FRY, the role of the guarantor that the Republika Srpska shall fulfill all the obligations it took.

The Delegation of the Republika Srpska:

Momcilo Krajisnik

Nikola Koljevic

Aleksa Buha

Dayton, November 20, 1995

REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS  

MINISTER

Dayton, November 21, 1995

The Honorable

Klaus Kinkel

Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs

Bonn

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