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Government
Long-form name: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia;
abbreviated SFRY.
Type: Communist state, federal republic in form.
Capital: Belgrade.
Administrative divisions: 6 socialist republics (socijalisticke
republike, singular--socijalisticka republika); Bosna i Hercegovina,
Crna Gora, Hrvatska, Makedonija, Slovenija, Srbija; note--there are
two autonomous provinces (autonomne pokajine, singular--autonomna
pokajina) named Kosovo and Vojvodina within Srbija.
Independence: 1 December 1918; independent monarchy established
from the Kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro, parts of the
Turkish Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire; SFRY proclaimed
29 November 1945.
Constitution: 21 February 1974.
Legal system: mixture of civil law system and Communist
legal theory; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction.
National holiday: Proclamation of the Socialist Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, 29 November (1945).
Executive branch: president of the Collective State Presidency,
vice president of the Collective State Presidency, Collective
State Presidency, president of the Federal Executive Council,
two vice presidents of the Federal Executive Council, Federal
Executive Council.
Legislative branch: bicameral Federal Assembly (Savezna
Skupstina) consists of an upper chamber or Chamber of Republics
and Provinces and a lower chamber or Federal Chamber.
Judicial branch: Federal Court (Savezna Sud), Constitutional Court.
Leaders: Chief of State President of the Collective State
Presidency Borisav JOVIC (from Srbija; one-year term expires
15 May 1991); Vice President of the Collective State Presidency--
Stipe SUVAR (from Hrvatska; one-year term expires 15 May 1991);
note--the offices of president and vice president rotate
annually among members of the Collective State Presidency
with the current vice president assuming the presidency
and a new vice president selected from area which has gone
the longest without filling the position (the current sequence
is Srbija, Hrvatska, Crna Gora, Vojvodina, Kosovo, Makedonija,
Bosna i Hercegovina, and Slovenija);
Head of Government President of the Federal Executive Council
Ante MARKOVIC (since 16 March 1989); Vice President of the
Federal Executive Council Aleksandar MITROVIC (since 16
March 1989); Vice President of the Federal Executive Council
Zivko PREGL (since 16 March 1989).
Political parties and leaders: there are about 90 political
parties operating country-wide including the League of Communists
of Yugoslavia (LCY).
Suffrage: at age 16 if employed, universal at age 18.
Elections: direct national elections probably will be held
in late 1990.
Communists: 2,079,013 party members (1988).
Other political or pressure groups: Socialist Alliance of
Working People of Yugoslavia (SAWPY), the major mass front
organization; Confederation of Trade Unions of Yugoslavia
(CTUY), League of Socialist Youth of Yugoslavia, Federation
of Veterans' Associations of Yugoslavia (SUBNOR).
Member of: ASSIMER, CCC, CEMA (observer but participates
in certain commissions), FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBA, IBRD,
ICAC, ICAO, IDA, IDB--Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD,
IFC, IHO, ILO, ILZSG, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IPU,
ITC, ITU, NAM, OECD (participant in some activities), UN,
UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO.
Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Dzevad MUJEZINOVIC;
Chancery at 2410 California Street NW, Washington DC 20008;
telephone (202) 462-6566; there are Yugoslav Consulates
General in Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Pittsburgh, and
San Francisco; US--Ambassador Warren ZIMMERMAN; Embassy
at Kneza Milosa 50, Belgrade; telephone [38] (11) 645-655;
there is a US Consulate General in Zagreb.
Flag: three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white,
and red with a large red five-pointed star edged in yellow
superimposed in the center over all three bands.