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The '''Karađorđevo meeting''' was between ] president ] and ] president ] to redistribute ] between ] and ]. ] wanted all lands where Serbs had a majority, eastern and western Bosnia. While Croatian leader Franjo Tuđman aimed at securing parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina with a Croatian majority. Secret discussions between Franjo Tuđman and ] on the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina were held as early as March, 1991 which became known as the ''Karađorđevo agreement''. The policies of the Republic of Croatia and its leader Franjo Tuđman towards Bosnia and Herzegovina were never completely transparent but always included Franjo Tuđman’s ultimate aim of expanding Croatia’s borders. <ref name="ICTY: Naletilić and Martinović verdict - A. Historical background">{{cite web|url=http://www.un.org/icty/naletilic/trialc/judgement/nal-tj030331-1.htm#IIA|title=ICTY: Naletilić and Martinović verdict - A. Historical background|}}</ref> | ||
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The Karađorđevo meeting was between Croatian president Franjo Tuđman and Serbian president Slobodan Milošević to redistribute Bosnia and Herzegovina between Croatia and Serbia. Slobodan Milošević wanted all lands where Serbs had a majority, eastern and western Bosnia. While Croatian leader Franjo Tuđman aimed at securing parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina with a Croatian majority. Secret discussions between Franjo Tuđman and Slobodan Milošević on the division of Bosnia and Herzegovina were held as early as March, 1991 which became known as the Karađorđevo agreement. The policies of the Republic of Croatia and its leader Franjo Tuđman towards Bosnia and Herzegovina were never completely transparent but always included Franjo Tuđman’s ultimate aim of expanding Croatia’s borders.
The meeting was held in Karađorđevo, Vojvodina, Serbia in March, 1991. At the time the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia still existed, (On June 25, 1991 Slovenia would declare independence and fight a brief, Ten-Day War sparking the disintegration of Yugoslavia).
At a meeting with his closest advisers and a group of Croat nationalists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Franjo Tudman stated that "It is time that we take the opportunity to gather the Croatian people inside the widest possible borders." pointing out the opportunity to expand Croatia's border at the expense of Bosnia and Herzegovina's territory.
Dušan Bilandžić, a counselor of Franjo Tuđman participated at the meeting and published a book claiming that "the essence of meeting was division of Bosnia and Herzegovina".
In a court testimony Hrvoje Šarinić, counselor of Franjo Tuđman for foreign affairs, who was present during the negotiations denied several times the existence of any agreement about the division of the Bosnia and Herzegovina with Milošević.
When Stjepan Mesić became a president of Croatia after the death of Tuđman, he testified in ICTY about Franjo Tuđman's plan to divide Bosnia and Herzegovina between Serbs and Croats. He also revealed Franjo Tuđman's transcripts about his plan which became an evidence in the case against Croat leaders from Bosnia for war crimes committed against Bosniaks. Many other high-ranking Croatian politicians also testified in ICTY confirming the story, such as Ante Marković.
Furthermore, some dignified American and British politicians such as Warren Zimmermann, Herbert Okun, US veteran diplomat and lord Paddy Ashdown confirmed the story. Herbert Okun was the deputy of Cyrus Vance, UN special envoy to the Balkans. In this capacity, he attended a number of meetings where the division of Bosnia Herzegovina was discussed. As Okun described it, the aspirations of Croatia and Serbia for the annexation of parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina became evident after Tuđman and Milošević met in Karađorđevo in March 1991 and after the meeting of Mate Boban and Radovan Karadžić in May 1992 in Graz. Neither party kept their plans for the creation of separate states within Bosnia-Herzegovina and their annexation to Serbia and Croatia secret at their subsequent meetings with international diplomats.
Graz agreement
Main article: Graz agreementThe Graz agreement was a pact signed between Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić and Bosnian Croat leader Mate Boban on April 27, 1992 in the town of Graz, Austria, during a period when Serbian forces controlled 70% of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The treaty was meant to limit conflict between Serb and Croat forces and put them closer to annexation of territory under Croat and Serb control. The Graz agreement was seen as a sequel to the Karađorđevo meeting. In between the newly expanded Croatia and Serbia would be a small Bosniak buffer state, the Serbs pejoratively called it "Alija's Pashaluk", after Bosnian president Alija Izetbegović.
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