Sanctions and Peace Talks in the Early 1990s
The effects of the sanctions was seen during the peace talks in 1993 when the leaders agreed to support a peace plan to bring the war to an end, but the plan failed as the Assembly of the Republics of Srpska rejected it. This rejection of the peace plan brought increased economic sanctions. In 1994 Milosevic placed increasing pressure on the Bosnian Serbs. Milosevic imposed his own economic sanctions on Bosnia Herzegovina to pressure the Bosnian Serb leadership to accept the peace plan.
The imposition of sanction by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on the Bosnian Serbs in 1994 brought a partial lifting of sanctions on Yugoslavia by the UN. This weakened the Bosnian Serbs and helped in part the Croats to reclaim territories they were occupying.
It was clear that the sanctions added to the pre-existing economic difficulties in Yugoslavia caused the Serbian president Milosevic to give up his plan to creating a pan-Serbian homeland. Although the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia imposed sanctions on the Bosnian Serbs in 1994, the peace plan remained stalled.
The 1995 NATO intervention using air strikes brought the final surrender of the warring groups, but it was the only time in history that surrender was attained with only the use of air strikes.
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