United Serb Republic
| United Serb Republic | ||||||||||||||
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Motto Only Unity Saves the Serbs |
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Anthem Bože Pravde ("God of Justice") |
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 United Serb Republic (Light blue) and FR Yugoslavia (dark) (Serb territories)
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| Capital | Pale | |||||||||||||
| Languages | Serbian | |||||||||||||
| Religion | Serbian Orthodoxy | |||||||||||||
| Government | Confederation | |||||||||||||
| President | Milan Martić (RSK) | |||||||||||||
| Radovan Karadžić (RS) | ||||||||||||||
| Legislature | National Assembly | |||||||||||||
| Historical era | Yugoslav Wars | |||||||||||||
| • | Assembly | May 1995 | ||||||||||||
| • | Operation Storm | August 7, 1995 | ||||||||||||
| Currency | Krajina and Republika Srpska dinar | |||||||||||||
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The United Serb Republic was a project of unifying into a single independent state, two self-proclaimed Serb states, the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) in Croatia and Republika Srpska (RS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), with the intent of it later being annexed by the "mother-state of Serbia".
On 28 February 1991, the Croatian Serbs declared their secession from Croatia and adopted a resolution declaring their desire to unite with Serbs in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 27 June, the unification of the self-proclaimed Serbian Autonomous Oblasts (SAOs) of Krajina in Croatia and Bosanska Krajina in Bosnia and Herzegovina was declared in response to the "disintegration of Yugoslavia, caused by the secession of Slovenia and Croatia" and on "the principle that all Serbs should live in one state." On 24 October, the SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia joined the united state. The Bosnian Serb Assembly organised a referendum on 10 November 1991, which concluded that the Serb people in Bosnia and Herzegovina would remain in a Yugoslav state with Serbia, Montenegro and the SAO's.
On 26 December 1991, Serbia, Montenegro, and the Serb rebel-held territories in Croatia agreed that they would form a new "third Yugoslavia". Efforts were also made in 1991 to include SR Bosnia and Herzegovina within the federation, with negotiations between Miloševic, Bosnia's Serbian Democratic Party, and the Bosniak proponent of union – Bosnia's Vice-President Adil Zulfikarpašić taking place on this matter. Zulfikarpašić believed that Bosnia could benefit from a union with Serbia, Montenegro, and Krajina, thus he supported a union which would secure the unity of Serbs and Bosniaks. Miloševic continued negotiations with Zulfikarpašić to include Bosnia within a new Yugoslavia, however efforts to include the whole of Bosnia within a new Yugoslavia effectively terminated by late 1991 as Alija Izetbegović planned to hold a referendum on independence while the Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats formed autonomous territories. The independence referendum was organised unconstitutionally and it failed to attain constitutionally required two-third majority voter turnout. The total turn out of voters was 63.4% of which 99.7% voted for the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 3 March, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Alija Izetbegović declared the independent Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the parliament ratified the action. On 6 April, the United States and the European Economic Community recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina as an independent state and on 22 May it was admitted into the United Nations.
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