Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control in the context of "Dayton Accords"

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⭐ Core Definition: Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control

The Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms ControlAnnex 1-B (Serbo-Croatian: Sporazum o subregionalnoj kontroli naoružanja), also known as the Florence Agreement, is an annex to the Dayton Agreement intended to control military activity within Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as Serbia, Montenegro, and Croatia. It was signed and activated on June 14, 1996, in Florence, Italy and was amended in 2006 and 2007 to accommodate additional nation-building. With the agreement's purpose laid out in Article I, the succeeding Article II restricted military actions between the following parties: Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Republika Srpska. Article III limited arms imports between these three entities during the aftermath (90 to 180 days) of the Bosnian War. Article IV is an arms control agreement limiting procurement of certain combat-offensive vehicles, artillery and aircraft executed by all four signatory countries.

All signatories underwent military disarmament within Article V, reducing or destroying armored combat vehicles, artillery, and other military assets. Article VI and Article VII limited extraterritorial arms export and decommissioning as means of disarmament. This disarmament concluded by 1997. Article VIII established a regional disclosure, data exchange, and military notifications program. It was under the supervision of the OSCE from 1995 to 2015, thereafter leaving the enforcement to the signatory countries. During 1996 the main two parties were known as Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (succeeded by Serbia and Montenegro) and the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republica Srpska).

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Agreement on Sub-Regional Arms Control in the context of Dayton Agreement

The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, also known as the Dayton Agreement or the Dayton Accords (Serbo-Croatian: Dejtonski mirovni sporazum / Дејтонски мировни споразум), and colloquially known as the Dayton (Bosnian: Dejton; Serbian: Дејтон / Dejton), is the peace agreement ending the three-and-a-half-year-long Bosnian War, an armed conflict part of the larger Yugoslav Wars. It was signed on 21 November 1995 in Dayton, Ohio, United States, at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. It was re-signed ceremonially in Paris, France on 14 December 1995.

The warring parties agreed to peace and to a single sovereign state known as Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of two parts: the largely Serb-populated Republika Srpska and mainly Croat-Bosniak-populated Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bosnia and Herzegovina entered into the related arms control treaty, the Florence Agreement, in 1996 under the Accords. The Dayton followed the Washington Agreement, signed the year prior, in collective efforts to delineate the country's geography.

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