of coca leaf; even so, farmer abandonment and voluntary and forced
eradication programs resulted in leaf production dropping from
75,100 metric tons in 1996 to 73,000 tons in 1997, a 3% decrease
from 1996; government considers all but 12,000 hectares illicit;
intermediate coca products and cocaine exported to or through
Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile to the US and other
international drug markets; alternative crop program aims to reduce
illicit coca cultivation

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Introduction

Background: On 21 November 1995, in Dayton, Ohio, the former
Yugoslavia's three warring parties signed a peace agreement that
brought to a halt over three years of interethnic civil strife in
Bosnia and Herzegovina (the final agreement was signed in Paris on
14 December 1995). The Dayton Agreement, signed then by Bosnian
President IZETBEGOVIC, Croatian President TUDJMAN, and Serbian
President MILOSEVIC, divides Bosnia and Herzegovina roughly equally
between the Muslim/Croat Federation and the Republika Srpska while
maintaining Bosnia's currently recognized borders. In 1995-96, a
NATO-led international peacekeeping force (IFOR) of 60,000 troops
served in Bosnia to implement and monitor the military aspects of
the agreement. IFOR was succeeded by a smaller, NATO-led
Stabilization Force (SFOR) whose mission is to deter renewed
hostilities. SFOR remains in place. A High Representative appointed
by the UN Security Council is responsible for civilian
implementation of the accord, including monitoring implementation,
facilitating any difficulties arising in connection with civilian
implementation, and coordinating activities of the civilian
organizations and agencies in Bosnia. The Bosnian conflict began in
the spring of 1992 when the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina
held a referendum on independence and the Bosnian Serbs--supported by
neighboring Serbia--responded with armed resistance aimed at
partitioning the republic along ethnic lines and joining Serb-held
areas to form a "greater Serbia." In March 1994, Bosnia's Muslims
and Croats reduced the number of warring factions from three to two
by signing an agreement in Washington creating their joint
Muslim/Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Federation,
formed by the M