    the brioni agreement or brioni declaration (, , ) is a document signed by representatives of slovenia, croatia and the socialist federal republic of yugoslavia under the political sponsorship of the european community (ec) on the brijuni islands on 7 july 1991. the agreement sought to create an environment in which further negotiations on the future of yugoslavia could take place. however, ultimately it isolated the federal prime minister ante markoviÄ in his efforts to preserve yugoslavia, and effectively stopped any form of federal influence over slovenia. it also allowed the yugoslav people's army (jna) to focus on combat in croatia, and fulfilled serbia's goal of removing slovenia from yugoslavia, creating a precedent of redrawing international borders and staking the ec's interest in resolving the yugoslav crisis. the agreement facilitated the cessation of hostilities between the jna and slovene forces in the ten-day war. slovenia and croatia agreed to suspend activities stemming from their declarations of independence, made on 25 june, for a period of three months. the document also resolved border control and customs inspection issues regarding slovenia's borders, resolved air-traffic control responsibility and mandated an exchange of prisoners of war. the brioni agreement also formed the basis for an observer mission to monitor implementation of the agreement in slovenia. eleven days after the agreement was made, the federal government pulled the jna out of slovenia completely. conversely, the agreement made no mitigating impact on fighting in the croatian war of independence. ==background== on 23 june 1991, as slovenia and croatia prepared to declare their independence during the breakup of yugoslavia, the european community (ec) foreign ministers decided the ec member states would not extend [[diplo
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