UN General Assembly
1992

constitutional settlement to the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina which will protect the rights of all citizens. We envision it as encompassing the following: First, a State founded on the principles of democracy, individual rights, tolerance, religious and cultural freedoms and a market economy; Secondly, a constitutional and administrative framework similar to that of modern democratic States; Thirdly, a decentralized State organized on the principles of parliamentary civil democracy; and Fourthly, a single legislative, executive and judicial framework for the whole territory of the Republic, with decentralized administration in all regions. We envision the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as consisting of administrative territorial regions to be formed according to economic, cultural, historical and ethnic criteria. We believe it is impractical and immoral to institute administrative territorial regions on an exclusively ethnic basis. Moreover, it is impossible, because we are an ethnically mixed, intermingled country: a living, breathing Jackson Pollack painting. Government at every level will respect the equal rights of all the peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Government will be based on the