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by Jan Oskar Engene, 2 Febuary 1998
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The first proposal is diagonally divided top-hoist to
bottom-fly yellow over light blue flag with line of 10 (?) white
fivepointed stars in the blue field along the diagonal. The
number 10 here is just an educated guess. Size of stars unknown,
of course.
Zeljko Heimer, 27 January 1998
Westendorp's head is obscuring part of this flag in the photo,
but 10 seems to be correct. However, a news report talked about
"a certain number of stars, similar to those on the flag of
the European Union", which would make the number 12. From
the photo it seems the top and bottom stars are not shown in
full.
Jan Oskar Engene, 28 January 1998
Judging from the size of the stars and their positions, I
think that they are 9 and not 10. Further, there seems to be a
difference between Zeljko's descriptions and the actual proposal:
the triangle (a geographic representation of the country?) does
not extend either to the hoist nor to the fly.
Jorge Candeias, 28 January 1998
You could be right. If I remember correctly there are ten
stars on the flag of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to
reflect the fact that federation has ten cantons. The question is
then what the symbolism behind the number of stars - nine or ten
Jan Oskar Engene, 28 January 1998
My counting of the stars (half obscured by Westerndorp's head)
is 8 full stars and 2 halfs.
Zeljko Heimer, 28 January 1998
In the construction sheet following the commission report the
triangle is running from upper to lower edge, touching both.
Jan Oskar Engene, 2 February 1998