Dayton peace (dis)agreement, 25 years on
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with the Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite inter-ethnic presidency, Milorad Dodik, in Belgrade, Serbia January 17, 2019. [Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via Reuters] Today marks the 25th anniversary of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Accords. The landmark agreement between Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, which officially ended the deadliest conflict on European soil since World War II, was brokered by the United States at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, some thr...
Source: aljazeera.com