The citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina decided in a referendum 31 years ago on February 29 and March 1 that they want to live in an independent state. Then, by the will of the majority of citizens, Bosnia and Herzegovina became an independent and sovereign state, and subsequently internationally recognized.
In 1992, also the first year of the war, 76 countries of the world recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina as an independent country, and Bulgaria was the first to do so, even before the referendum on January 31, 1992.
Bosnia and Herzegovina became a member of the United Nations on May 22, 1992, and its national flag was placed in front of the headquarters in New York. Shortly after the declaration of independence, the four-year aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina began.
Bosnia and Herzegovina became a member of the UN on the basis of Resolution 755, thus, as the successor of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, it became a party to all conventions and agreements ratified by the SFRY. The UN General Assembly unanimously admitted BiH to its membership. This is how Bosnia and Herzegovina received full international legitimacy.
On April 6, 1992, the member countries of the then European Economic Community, the predecessor of the European Union, and a day later the United States of America, recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina as an independent and sovereign state.
To date, BiH has established diplomatic relations with 183 member states of the United Nations, and intensive communication is conducted with the remaining nine members (Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Nauru, Palau, Micronesia, Kiribati and the Central African Republic) with which they have not yet formally established diplomatic relations.
The specificity of all these nine countries is that they are geographically very far from BiH and that they do not have a particularly developed diplomatic network, which is probably one of the reasons why diplomatic relations have not been established with them to date, Fena reports.
