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SARAJEVO, November 21 (FENA) - Today, Bosnia and Herzegovina marks the 23rd anniversary of the initialling of the Dayton Peace Agreement.
On this day in 1995, after the three-week peace conference (November 1-21) at the Wright Patterson US Naval Base in Dayton, Ohio, the agreement was initialled by the President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina President Alija Izetbegović, President of Croatia Franjo Tudjman and President of the then FR of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milošević.
The agreement was initialled in the presence of the then US Secretary of State Warren Christopher. The lead US mediators were Richard Holbrooke and General Wesley Clark.
"This is not just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of the war. In such a situation as it is now, in this world as it is, a better peace could not have been achieved," said Alija Izetbegović, after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement on December 14, 1995, at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
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