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Article: Yugoslavia is no more.(Editorials)(Milosevic's old country split again)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 12, 2003
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Byline: The Register-Guard
NOTHING COMES easily in the Balkans. Not even the demise of what once was Yugoslavia, which has now been divided - yet again - into the Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The name Yugoslavia has slipped into history.
This new division - Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 - is unlikely to last; both the Serbs and the Montenegrins want independent countries of their own.
The agreement to replace Yugoslavia with the new union was brokered by a European Union commission. Its intent is that Serbia and Montenegro will be bound together for three years, after which ...