[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 14 (Thursday, January 22, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 3188]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-1354]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 4592]


Name Change of Yugoslavia to Serbia and Montenegro

SUMMARY: On February 4, 2003, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 
changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro.
    On February 4, 2003, the Parliament of the Federal Republic of 
Yugoslavia voted to adopt a new constitution establishing the state 
union of Serbia and Montenegro. On February 7, 2003, the U.S. Board on 
Geographic Names confirmed the following forms for official usage:

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             Old entry                            New entry
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Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of      Serbia and Montenegro.
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    The Serbian form of the name (Srbija i Crna Gora) is taken from the 
text of the Constitutional Charter in that language. The generic term 
used in the Charter, drzavna zajednica (literally ``state union'') is 
not considered part of the state title. Therefore, both the short form 
and the long form of this independent state is Serbia and Montenegro.
    The FIPS 10 geopolitical code remains as it was under the previous 
name, YI.

    Dated: January 13, 2004.
Charles L. English,
Director, Office of South Central European Affairs, Department of 
State.
[FR Doc. 04-1354 Filed 1-21-04; 8:45 am]
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