December 12 marked the 30th anniversary of the signing of the treaty of Paris, far better known as the Dayton Peace Accords.
Dayton was the last of three US-mediated agreements that ended the wars in Croatia and Bosnia: the 1994 Washington Agreement that ended the Muslim-Croat War, the Erdut Agreement signed on November 12, 1995 that ended the Croatia War and, of course, the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Bosnia War. I was the only US diplomat to participate in all three negotiations and was the principal negotiator of the Erdut Agreement.
In this anniversary year, I have been repeatedly asked about the lessons to be learnt from US diplomacy in the Balkans, particularly as they might be relevant to Ukraine. Generally, I dislike applying lessons from one conflict to another.
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