ABSTRACT
This chapter examines both components of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) operation in relation to the applicable dimensions. The Vance Plan showed its fragility while UNPROFOR was deploying: Croatia demanded return of the "Pink Zones", those areas around the UN Protected Areas into which the Serbs had extended their presence while the agreement was still being negotiated. In July 1993 an agreement on the Pink Zones had been reached at ERDUT calling for the withdrawal of Croatian forces from sensitive areas and their replacement by UNPROFOR troops. In Croatia, UNPROFOR was taken to task repeatedly for either failing to protect the Serbs in the sectors or for failing to have them comply with UN Security Council Resolutions. The Security Council imposed an embargo on the import of weapons against the republics of the former Yugoslavia in September 1991 in an effort to curb the emerging conflict.
