A platform on the future Yugoslav community (Izetbegović – Gligorov plan), a view from the Bosnian-Herzegovinian perspective Cover Image

Platforma o budućoj jugoslavenskoj zajednici (Plan Izetbegović – Gligorov), Pogled iz bosanskohercegovačke perspektive
A platform on the future Yugoslav community (Izetbegović – Gligorov plan), a view from the Bosnian-Herzegovinian perspective

Author(s): Vera Katz
Subject(s): History
Published by: Institut za istoriju
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Platform on the future Yugoslav community; Izetbegovic – Gligorov Plan; stepwise federation; asymmetric federation

Summary/Abstract: A platform on the future Yugoslav community or the Izetbegović – Gligorov Plan offered one of the options in searching of the possibilities for the organization of relations among the Yugoslav republics with the aim to avoid the war conflicts in a general disintegration of the party, political, economic and state system of the Socialists Federative Republic of Yugoslavia. The platform was based on the principle 2+2+2 and projected an asymmetric federation in which Serbia and Montenegro assumed a central place in a federation or confederation, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia were semi independent but sovereign republics, and Croatia and Slovenia were as sovereign and autonomous within the confederation as they considered to be necessary. However, the suggested option could not reconcile the confronting political stances of Slovenia and Croatia on one and Serbia, Montenegro on the other side. The national interests which led to the creation of independent states were much stronger than the possibilities of reorganization of the Yugoslav federation into a modern European state.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 42
  • Page Range: 207-226
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Bosnian
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