SCG (country)

State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
Državna Zajednica Srbija i Crna Gora Државна Заједница Србија и Црна Гора
1992–2006
Flag Coat of arms
Anthem Hej, Sloveni Хеј, Словени "Hey, Slavs"
Capital		Belgrade
Languages		Serbo-Croatian (1992–1997) Serbian (1997–2006)
Government		Confederation (2003–2006) Federal republic (1992–2003)
President
•	1992–1993	Dobrica Ćosić
•	1993–1997	Zoran Lilić
•	1997–2000	Slobodan Milošević
•	2000–2003	Vojislav Koštunica
•	2003–2006	Svetozar Marović
Prime Minister
•	1992–1993	Milan Panić
•	1993–1998	Radoje Kontić
•	1998–2000	Momir Bulatović
•	2000–2001	Zoran Žižić
•	2001–2003	Dragiša Pešić
•	2003–2006	Svetozar Marović
Historical era		Post–Cold War
•	Constitution	27 April 1992
•	Established	28 April 1992
•	UN membership	1 November 2000
•	State union	4 February 2003
•	Dissolution	3 June 2006
Area
•	2006	102,350 km2 (39,520 sq mi)
Population
•	2006 est.	10,832,545
Density		106/km2 (274/sq mi)
Currency		Serbia and Serbian parts of Kosovo  • Yugoslav dinar (1992–2003)  • Serbian dinar (2003–2006) Montenegro and Albanian parts of Kosovo  • Yugoslav dinar (1992–1999)  • Deutsche Mark (1999–2002)  • Euro (2002–2006)
Internet TLD		.yu
Calling code		+381
Preceded by Succeeded by Yugoslavia Serbia Montenegro
Today part of		Montenegro  Serbia  Kosovo
a.	^ Known as the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" 1992–2003.
b.	^ After 2003, no city was the official capital, but legislative and executive institutions remained located in Belgrade. Podgorica served as the seat of the Supreme Court.
c.	^ Membership as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; ISO 3166-1 = CS; UTC offset = +1.
d.	^ De facto currencies used in Montenegro and Albanian parts of Kosovo.
e.	^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the Brussels Agreement. Kosovo has received formal recognition as an independent state from 111 out of 193 United Nations member states.

Serbia and Montenegro (Serbo-Croatian: Srbija i Crna Gora, Србија и Црна Гора; SCG, СЦГ), officially the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (Državna Zajednica Srbija i Crna Gora, Државна Заједница Србија и Црна Гора), was a country in Southeast Europe, created from the two remaining federal republics of Yugoslavia after its breakup in 1992. The republics of Serbia and Montenegro together established a federation in 1992 as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FR Yugoslavia or FRY; Savezna Republika Jugoslavija, Савезна Република Југославија), a name which the union held until February 2003.

The state aspired to be recognized as the sole legal successor to Yugoslavia, but those claims were opposed by other former constituent republics. The United Nations also denied its request to take up Yugoslavia's membership. Eventually, after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević from power as president of the federation in 2000, the country rescinded those aspirations and accepted the opinion of the Badinter Arbitration Committee about shared succession. It re-applied for UN membership on 27 October and was admitted on 1 November 2000.

The FRY was initially dominated by Slobodan Milošević as President of Serbia (1989–1997) and then President of Yugoslavia (1997–2000). Milošević installed and forced the removal of several federal presidents (such as Dobrica Ćosić) and prime ministers (such as Milan Panić). However, the Montenegrin government, initially enthusiastic supporters of Milošević, started gradually distancing themselves from his policies. That culminated in regime change in 1996, when his former ally Milo Đukanović reversed his policies, became leader of Montenegro's ruling party and subsequently dismissed former Montenegrin leader Momir Bulatović, who remained loyal to the Milošević government. As Bulatović was given central positions in Belgrade from that time (as federal Prime Minister), Đukanović continued to govern Montenegro and further isolated it from Serbia, so that from 1996 to 2006, Montenegro and Serbia were only nominally one country—governance at every feasible level was conducted locally (Belgrade for Serbia and Podgorica for Montenegro).

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