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Bosnia is one of a number of successor states of the former Yugoslavia, a party to the Genocide Convention. The Convention remained in force without interruption when Bosnia became indepependent because the new government announced its acceptance of the treaty. Convention Article XIII does not apply to successor states, but only to new states whose accession becomes effective after ninety days.
Although Bosnia's notice to the U.N. came nine months after independence, the Genocide Convention still did not lapse. Its provisions are so vital that since Nuremberg all have recognized universal obligations whether or not a state formally consents to be bound.
