Opinion No. 4 On International Recognition of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia-hercegovina by the European Community and its Member States

Abstract

173Recognition — States — Criteria — Guidelines on the Recognition of New States in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union issued by the European Community and its Member States Guarantees of human and minority rights — Respect for frontiers — Democratic constitution — Bosnia-Hercegovina — Whether meeting criteria for recognition — Whether sufficient indication of wish of the peoples of Bosnia-Hercegovina to create independent State — Bosnia-Hercegovina comprising three peoples — Absence of a referendum or other act of all the peoples of Bosnia-HercegovinaStates — Criteria for statehood — Effects of recognition — Yugoslavia — Bosnia-Hercegovina — Whether meeting criteria for statehood