WAS YUGOSLAVIA A MEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS IN THE YEARS 1992-2000?

摘要

The judgment delivered by the International Court of Justice on February 26, 2007, in Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro), has once again highlighted the question whether Yugoslavia was a member of the United Nations in the years 1992-2000 - a question that has bedeviled the United Nations scene for the past fifteen years and, as will be demonstrated below, has brought forth some contradictory pronouncements by the International Court of Justice. In truth, the blame for the considerable confusion on this matter rests with the UN Security Council and General Assembly, which in 1992 set in motion the chain of events that created the political and legal hiatus that will be analyzed in the following pages.