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DELIMITATION AND DEMARCATION OF THE EXTERNAL BOUNDARIES OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Vladimir-Đuro Degan
orcid.org/0000-0001-6884-1189
; Jadranski zavod HAZU, Zagreb
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The final demarcation of frontiers between the successor States of the former Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia is a painstaking job faced with many obstacles. The present article
deals in particular with external boundaries of Croatia. The demarcation of the entire frontier
has so far been accomplished only in respect to the boundaries with Hungary and that in the
application of the 1920 Trianon Peace Treaty, the party of which was the Kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes.
In respect to land and maritime frontiers with Slovenia, after the written and oral procedures
have been accomplished, the rendering of the arbitral award is expected in the near future.
The negotiations with Serbia are in progress. The Treaty on Boundaries between Bosnia-Herzegovina
and Croatia was signed in 1999 by the two Presidents, but it has never been ratified
in Parliaments of the two contracting States. Since then, it has been provisionally applied
without interruption for fifteen years. In 2002 Croatia and the former Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) concluded a Protocol on the Interim Regime along the
Southern Border, which Montenegro succeeded after it had proclaimed its independence in
2006.
This article deals especially with the provisional application of treaties in general and with
the impact of unilateral acts of the termination of agreements on boundaries, boundary regimes
and other territorial regimes, when their provisions provide for that option. The author
stresses the importance of the freedom of navigation of merchant ships of all flags on the
Danube River according to Article 1 of the 1948 Belgrade Danube Convention, and the right
of natural and juridical persons to the peaceful enjoyment of their immovable properties that
happen to be allocated on the other side of the frontier.
Ključne riječi
delimitation; demarcation; thalweg; provisional application of treaties; borderlines of cadastre districts; uti possidetis principle
Hrčak ID:
144386
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Datum izdavanja:
8.9.2015.
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