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  • proper noun Initialism of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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Examples

  • The case of the SFRY is more complex because of the wars that surrounded its break up.

    Independence Facts & Fantasies 2007

  • The case of the SFRY is more complex because of the wars that surrounded its break up.

    Archive 2007-10-07 2007

  • All the other states had likewise to apply for UN membership and were not regarded as successor states to the former SFRY.

    Independence Facts & Fantasies 2007

  • Fortunately we have had considerable recent experience of such events with the dissolution of the Soviet Union (USSR), the separation of the former Czechoslovakia into two states and the liquidation of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) so that there is a considerable body of recent state practice upon which to draw.

    Independence Facts & Fantasies 2007

  • Nonetheless there came a time when the international community concluded that there was no successor state to the SFRY or Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which by late 1992 had been reduced to a rump of Serbia and Montenegro.

    Archive 2007-10-07 2007

  • Fortunately we have had considerable recent experience of such events with the dissolution of the Soviet Union (USSR), the separation of the former Czechoslovakia into two states and the liquidation of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) so that there is a considerable body of recent state practice upon which to draw.

    Archive 2007-10-07 2007

  • Nonetheless there came a time when the international community concluded that there was no successor state to the SFRY or Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which by late 1992 had been reduced to a rump of Serbia and Montenegro.

    Independence Facts & Fantasies 2007

  • All the other states had likewise to apply for UN membership and were not regarded as successor states to the former SFRY.

    Archive 2007-10-07 2007

  • The FRY's application on the same basis as other successors demonstrates what President Kostunica has told United States officials: that he is abandoning Milosevic's claim that the FRY is the continuation of the former SFRY.

    Text Of Letter From The President On The Fry Joining The Osce Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2000

  • Slovenia, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia applied to participate in the OSCE following the dissolution of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).

    Text Of Letter From The President On The Fry Joining The Osce Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2000

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