Aid for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

The Council calls on the Commission to submit a comprehensive report to the General Affairs Council on 26 and 27 February 1996 concerning: - the prospects for building up cooperation between the States concerned in the context of an overall approach to the region's future; - the means that the European Community and its Member States might employ, by way of assistance to the States of former Yugoslavia, to pave the way for such cooperation. On the basis of the Commission's report and the conclusions that the Council draws from it, the Presidency of the Council and the Commission might begin talks with the authorities, concerning the regional cooperation commitments that could be made. The Council also continues to press for the return of refugees at the earliest opportunity.�