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33.
Mr. Simon Coombs
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on British relations with the constituent parts of the former Yugoslavia.
Mr. Douglas Hogg
The United Kingdom and its EC partners recognised Slovenia and Croatia as independent sovereign states on 15 January, and Bosnia-Herzegovina on 7 April. Recognition of Macedonia has been delayed on account of Greek concerns. We reserve our position of the status of the recently self-proclaimed Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.