General Elections, 14 September 1996

In accordance with Article III, 2, (e) of Annex 3 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace (the Dayton agreement), and based on the decisions taken by the OSCE Ministerial Council in Budapest on December 7-8, 1995, Mr. Eduard van Thijn of the Netherlands was appointed Co-ordinator for International Monitoring (CIM) of the elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Almost one thousand international observers provided a broad presence throughout the country on election day.