Ethnic Leaders Agree to Stronger National Rule
From Times Wire Reports
Leaders of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s three major ethnic factions agreed to consolidate power in a stronger national government, a decade after the end of their civil war.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heralded the accord struck in Washington, which calls for a new constitution by March.
The 1995 agreement signed in Dayton, Ohio, ended the civil war only by allowing Serbs, Croats and Muslims to preside over separate political spheres.
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