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Formerly part of
Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina seceded on the 6th of April 1992.
For
more than three years the new nation endured brutal and bloody ethnically
based civil warfare before it properly established itself.
Following the Dayton
Agreement initialled in Dayton, Ohio on the 21st of November 1995 and signed in Paris, France on
the 14th of December 1995 by parties
representing the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia (now the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro), discussions on a flag began in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A
representative of a commission appointed by the United Nations presented three similar designs
for a flag to the parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1998.
All three flags
incorporated blue, yellow and white, with the blue being modified to
match the blue of the European Union flag.
The current flag
was adopted on the 4th of February 1998. |
