Yet the Dayton agreement's plan for rebuilding a single Bosnian state, involving autonomy for both a Muslim-Croat federation and a Serb republic, has come to little.
For his part, the Yugoslav leader - a long-standing Serb nationalist - is pressing for the establishment of closer links between his country and the Bosnian Serb republic, the entity that the Dayton accords created within Bosnia along with the Muslim-Croat federation.