THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2025 27 U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke (left) and former Prime Minister of Sweden Carl Bildt, who served as the European Union’s Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia from June 1995 and co-chair of the November 1995 Dayton Peace Conference, in discussion as they await a C-130 Hercules aircraft that will fly them into Sarajevo for peace talks on October 2, 1995. NB/ROD The Road to Dayton By Peter Galbraith There were basically eight weeks of shuttle diplomacy. Holbrooke flying from Sarajevo, Belgrade, Zagreb. Dayton then began on the first of November and went for 21 days. A great deal of what was accomplished in Dayton had actually been accomplished before then. The first of these was a meeting in early September in Geneva with the foreign ministers—Milutinovic of Yugoslavia, Sacirbey of Bosnia, and Granic of Croatia—at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, in which they agreed to some fairly far-reaching basic principles, one of which was that everybody agreed that Bosnia-Herzegovina would continue as a single state. Second, it would have two entities: one being the Republika Srpska, which was the first time that that name was recognized, and the other being the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina; and that there be common institutions and so on. Then those were elaborated in a meeting in New York on the 25th of September with further agreed principles. There was a process that was laying down a lot of the stuff that was being elaborated at Dayton. Peter Galbraith served as the first U.S. ambassador to Croatia from 1993 to 1998 and played a crucial role in ending the war in Croatia.
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