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Thirtieth Anniversary of Sanctions on FR Yugoslavia

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Archive / News | 30.05.22 | access_time 12:38

United Nations Security Council (Photo:UN/Loey Felipe)

Exactly thirty years ago, on May 30, 1992, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 757, imposing sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which comprised today’s Serbia and Montenegro. The move – justified by claims that Yugoslavia was the main instigator of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina – was without precedent.

Entailing a complete economic blockade as well as the severing of all scientific, cultural and sports ties between Yugoslavia and the rest of the world, the sanctions were supported by 13 Security Council members. There were no negative votes, while only China and Zimbabwe abstained. 

During the 1990s, the U.N.S.C. adopted over 150 resolutions pertaining to the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and ensuing wars on its territory. A dozen or so of those resolutions entailed punitive measures against the FR Yugoslavia. 

Nearly all the resolutions levying sanctions against Yugoslavia over the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo, were unanimously adopted with the support of all permanent Security Council members, including Russia. 

In Yugoslavia-related matters, Moscow abstained from voting on several occasions and used its veto power within the U.N.S.C. only once, in December 1994, to prevent the adoption of a resolution seeking stricter border control between Yugoslavia and Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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