Division
The Croat administration would receive the territory of Banovina of Croatia that is delineated in the Cvetković–Maček Agreement of 1939. In between the newly expanded Croatia and Serbia would be a small Bosniak buffer state, pejoratively called "Alija's Pashaluk" by Croatian and Serbian leadership, after Bosnian president Alija Izetbegović.
According to the agreement Bosnia and Herzegovina would be divided along the Neretva River with Mostar and everything south of the city to be under Croat control. It was agreed that "in defining the borderline between the two constituent units in the area of Kupres, as well as Bosanska Posavina account should be taken of the compactness of areas and communications." The agreement concluded: "in view of this agreement, no more reasons obtain for an armed conflict between the Croatians and the Serbs in the entire territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina."
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