Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia-Herzegovina initialed the agreement at about 4 p.m.

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Members of the ruling party in Croatia rushed through an emergency measure to declare President Franjo Tudjman, who is seriously ill in hospital, temporarily incapacitated.

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One was the Croatian president, Franjo Tudjman: once they had stopped fighting one another (and reinforcing each other's nationalist fury), the Serb and Croat leaders colluded to carve up Bosnia.

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Officials said the main problem was finding a site with comparable housing for the three key participants, Presidents Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Franjo Tudjman of Croatia and Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia.

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Klein told reporters that both Presidents Franjo Tudjman of Croatia and President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia had recently reassured him that they were committed to a peaceful resolution of the problem.

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Despite misgivings among several European leaders, Kohl received Croatian President Franjo Tudjman in Bonn Thursday, the first time a European leader has agreed to see him since Croatia seceded June 25.

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Witness Slovakia and Croatia, both edging west again after the ousting last year of Vladimir Meciar and the death of Franjo Tudjman, leaders whose undemocratic habits kept their people out of the western sphere.

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Earlier on Sunday, Holbrooke met with Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to update him on Saturday's talks with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and to discuss the stability of Eastern Slavonia, a volatile region of Croatia bordering Serbia.

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In 1995, President Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia initialed an agreement shoring up their federation in the first breakthrough of U.S.-led talks aimed at ending four years of war in the former Yugoslavia.

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