The agreement was initialled at a military base near Dayton and officially signed in Paris
The Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was initialled on November 21, 1995 at the military base near Dayton, and officially signed in Paris on December 14, 1995. It was signed by the Chairman of the Presidency of the RBiH, Alija Izetbegović, the Presidents of the Republic of Croatia Franjo Tuđman and FRY Slobodan Milošević. The presidents of BiH, Croatia and Serbia are invited on negotiations in Dayton with full authority to sign the agreement without seeking parliamentary consent, remain in negotiations until an agreement is reached and do not make statements to the media. The main theme of the negotiations was the resolution of territorial issues. The agreed borders, with slight changes, looked like those foreseen by the Contact Group map and corresponded to the military situation on the ground.
The Dayton Accords recognised the existence of two entities: the Federation of BiH and Republika Srpska. BiH continued the continuity of existence in internationally recognized borders and territorially indivisible. On the eve of the aggression, BiH was the Republic of BiH, and after the Dayton Agreement only BiH, where the designation Republic was given to the entity with a Serb majority.
The treaty is the result of the international relationship of power from the time it was created, and the fact that it was signed in Paris did not change the essential message of supremacy that the US had at the time of its signing. Bosnians and Herzegovinians did not have the opportunity to declare themselves on the Dayton Agreement, nor did Annex 4 - the Constitution of BiH as its integral part, receive confirmation in the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH.
