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The former Yugoslavia became a party to the Genocide Convention in 1948 without reservation to the court's jurisdiction. Bosnia formally seceded from Yugoslavia and claimed independence in March 1992. In December 1992 Bosnia officially notified the U.N. that it would join the Convention as a successor state. Bosnia announced that it would be bound by the convention's terms from its date of independence the previous March.
In June 1992 the Presidents of Montenegro and Serbia by letter formally agreed to accept ICJ decisions when disputes arose with secessionist republics of the former Yugoslavia.
