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Formed in the aftermath of WWI, Yugoslavia was founded as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (three tribes of the same people). But in the early 1990s, following a series of violent conflicts on Slovenian and Croatian soil, the two republics successfully succeeded from Yugoslavia, which would later be followed by Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia. Mesic was member, later head of the... Read more
Prologue, The Headless State May 15-June 27, 1991, Sovereign, Independent Croatia May 28-June 30, 1991, Belated Election on the Constitutional President July 1--4, 1991, The Joint Brioni Declaration July 5-12, 1991, Futile Cries Jor Peace July 13-August 6, 1991, Serbia Angry at the World, August 7-22, 1991, EC Declaration: Serbia and YP A as Aggressors August 23-September 2, 1991, Peace Conference at The Hague September 3-7, 199, Army out of Control September 8-22, 1991, A Criminal Army Loses Its State September 23-0etober 10, 1991, Dubrovnik: An Estuary of Conscience October lI-November 3, 1991, Ravaged Yugoslavia Formally Disappears November 4-Deeember 5, 1991, Chronology of Events.
Biography
Stipe Mesic was the President of the Republic of Croatia. He has been a leading politician since the 1980s. He was the last president of Croatia as one of the Yugoslav republics, and in this capacity served as member, later chairman of the federal Presidium of Yugoslavia in 1990–1991. After years of relative political passivity, Mesic was elected independent Croatia’s second president in 2000, following the death of former President Franjo Tudman.
