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Slovenia became independent from Yugoslavia in 1992. For information on the armed conflict between the Slovenian separatists and the government of Yugoslavia, see Serbia (Yugoslavia): Slovenia conflict.
The Republic of Slovenia, in its present-day form, was declared independent from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) on 25 June 1991 and recognized as such in 1992. Slovenia was the first constituent republic of the FRY to secede as the federation began to crumble in the early 1990s. Milan Kucan became the first president of independent Slovenia.
Before independence Slovenia had been a constituent republic of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, created in 1946 by Josip Broz Tito. Tito's death and the fall of communism led to an increase in nationalist rhetoric, however, as political elites scrambled for electoral support in the early 1990s. In Slovenia the nationalist DEMOS coalition won the 1990 multi-party elections and quickly initiated moves towards Slovenian independence, among other things refusing to pay Slovenia's high share of the federal development fund and demanding a reform of the Yugoslav military and diplomatic corps. Negotiations on keeping the Yugoslav federation together failed as Slovenia demanded more self-rule and then declared independence in June 1991. Yugoslav government forces moved in to quell the rebellion, leading to an intrastate conflict (within Yugoslavia) which lasted for approximately ten days.
A ceasefire was declared in July, and European Community negotiators soon arrived and assisted in the signing of a partial peace agreement that postponed Slovenia's independence until further negotiations could be held. Yugoslavian troops soon withdrew, but the continued negotiations failed. As the conflict over Croatian territory began in July the Yugoslav authorities lost interest in Slovenia (which lacked a significant Serb or Croat minority) and in 1992 abandoned all claims to Slovenian territory. Slovenia thus became recognized as an independent democratic state.
Slovenia provided secondary warring support to the government of Afghanistan in the intrastate conflict with the Taleban that begun in 2003.
Slovenia has no recorded conflicts as a sovereign state in UCDP data. The Yugoslavia (Slovenia) conflict is viewed as an intrastate conflict within Yugoslavia (Serbia).
