Word: montenegro
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WHAT REMAINS OF YUGOSLAVIA PRETENDS TO BE A country, but even its own army doesn't seem to know where its borders are. Last Monday Serbia and Montenegro, the only two of the six republics not to declare independence, announced the establishment of a new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The constitution of the remapped Yugoslavia recognizes, at least for now, that its territory ends at the shared border with Bosnia-Herzegovina. Diplomats optimistically interpreted that fact as a renunciation of Belgrade's prior claims that Serbs in any of the republics had a right to belong to an expanded Serbian...
...PROCLAIM THE FEDERAL REpublic of Yugoslavia," intoned Bogdana Levakov, leader of the parliament in Belgrade, as a new flag was hoisted minus the red star of the old communist Yugoslavia. The star was not all that was gone: this Yugoslavia consists of just two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, with less than half the territory and less than half the 23.9 million people that constituted the nation of six republics a year ago. Only a handful of other countries sent representatives to honor the launch of the self-proclaimed new Yugoslavia...
SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO, that's what. The 12-member European Community and the U.S. have recognized the independence of the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The E.C. recognized Slovenia and Croatia last January, and Washington has now followed suit. And while Macedonia has declared its independence, the E.C. has not yet recognized it out of deference to Greece, which also contains a region it calls Macedonia and fears that an independent state could lay claim to some parts of Greek territory. The White House said the U.S. would coordinate its plans with the E.C. to recognize Macedonia, possibly...
Serbs and Croatians plainly were not in the mood to stop it. At the meeting Carrington conducted in Igalo, a seaside resort in the small Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, Milosevic and Tudjman glared at each other fiercely and refused to exchange a word. The agreement they signed never had a chance. When he returned to Zagreb, Tudjman fired his defense minister, Luka Bebic, for carrying out the cease-fire's terms prematurely -- and the belligerents leaped at each other again...
Yugoslavia's poorer, heavily subsidized southern republics, Macedonia and Montenegro, are far less enthusiastic about a breakup. They may yet join Serbia in resisting such a move, or enlist in a new political grouping with Belgrade as its base. Further disintegration could also lead to aggressive new moves by Serbia, which has said repeatedly that in the event of the federation's breakup, it will redraw its borders. That would probably mean an attempt to annex Kosovo and a struggle with Croatia over the future of the republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where 33% of the people are Serbs...