Bosnia’s wartime President Alija Izetbegovic, Croatia’s Franjo Tudjman and ex-Yugoslavia’s Slobodan Milosevic initialled 24 years ago the Dayton Peace Agreement, a treaty which ended the 1992-95 war in the country.

“This is not a just peace, but it is more just than a continuation of the war. In this situation, and in this world as it is, a better peace could not have been reached,” Izetbegovic said following the ceremony of the signing of this Agreement on December 14, 1995, in the Palace of Versailles in Paris.

The document was initialled following a three-week peace conference at the Wright-Patterson Airforce Base in Dayton, Ohio on 21 November 1995, led by then US Secretary of State Warren Christopher and negotiator Richard Holbrooke.

Dayton Peace Agreement was officially signed in Paris on 14 December 1995.

It preserved the integrity of Bosnia as a state made of two parts, the Bosniak-Croat Federation (FBiH) and the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, with Sarajevo as the capital city.