page_title: Croatia–Serbia relations
section_title: Border dispute
hierarchical_section_title: Croatia–Serbia relations / Post-war relations / Border dispute
caption_attribution_description: English: Borut Pahor, Jadranka Kosor and Boris Tadić in 2010.
context_page_description: Croatian–Serbian relations are foreign relations between Croatia and Serbia. The two countries established diplomatic relations on 9 September 1996 following the end of Croatian War of Independence.
  From 1918 to 1991, both countries were part of Yugoslavia. They now share 241 kilometers of common border. In the 2011 Croatian census, there were 186,633 Serbs living in Croatia. In the 2011 Serbian census, there were 57,900 Croats living in Serbia. Smaller lasting disputes include border disputes over the Island of Šarengrad and the Island of Vukovar.
  Serbian and Croatian, official languages in Serbia and Croatia respectively, are mutually intelligible, being standard varieties of Serbo-Croatian language.
  Croatia has an embassy in Belgrade and a general consulate in Subotica. Serbia has an embassy in Zagreb and two general consulates, one in Rijeka and one in Vukovar.
context_section_description: Due to the meandering of the Danube, the eastern border of Baranja with Serbia according to cadastral delineation is not followed, as each country controls territory on their side of the main river flow.
  Further south, near Vukovar and near Šarengrad, there are two river islands (Vukovarska ada and Šarengradska ada) which have been part of SR Croatia (during Yugoslavia) but during the war they came under Serbian control.
  Croatia is asking that the islands be returned because of the Badinter Arbitration Committee decision from 1991 that all internal borders between Yugoslav republics have become international. Serbia's position is that the natural border between the countries is the middle of the main flow of Danube, which would make the islands Serbian territory. Military occupation of the islands ended recently after an incident in which Serbian military opened fire and arrested the mayor of Vukovar Vladimir Štengel with 19 other Croatian civilians and 8 children who were going to visit Zvezdan Kisić, the mayor of the Serbian town Bačka Palanka. These islands are now under Serbian police control.
caption: Boris Tadić, President of Serbia, and Jadranka Kosor, Prime Minister of Croatia, in Ptuj, 2010.
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