Constitutional crisis in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), 1998-2001

The new FRY president, Vojislav Kostunica adopted a policy aimed at integrating the FRY into international organisations and particularly into the United Nations. The international recognition of the FRY and its integration into international organisations after the downfall of Milosevic does not guarantee the stability or longevity of the "Third Yugoslavia." The FRY has in fact been in the process of disintegration since 1998, and the new president Vojislav Kostunica has not reversed this trend. The FRY is presently in the same political situation as was the SFRY between June and December 1991--namely in the process of internal dissolution. The question remains whether Montenegro and Kosovo will agree with this role for Kostunica. If there is no explicit commitment by the Serbs and Montenegrins to live in one state, then the FRY cannot be a viable federal state