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Bosnia and Herzegovina - The 1998 Flag Change - Westendorp Comission - The Choice)

The adopted flag
by Jan Oskar Engene

The Process of Choice
The Involvement of Jos Poels and the Flag Institute

See also:

The Process of Choice

Just now, BBC is reporting that Mr. Westendorp decided about the Bosnia and Herzegovina flag - with no details.
Jan Zrzavy, 4 February 1998

The BBC on-line did report a few details. It said that Westendorp's choice was the flag with "a yellow triangle and white stars on a dark blue background". That sounds much like the commission's alternative 1, though the blue was light in the commission proposal. BBC said the Office of the High Representative also announced that the flag would be used at the Nagano games.
Jan Oskar Engene, 4 February 1998

You can find the details at the newsroom of the BBC World Service:

Wednesday, February 4, 1998 Published at 12:21 GMT

New flag imposed on Bosnia

The International High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Carlos Westendorp, has imposed a new state flag after the country's parliament failed to agree on a design.

A spokesman for Mr. Westendorp said the flag -- a yellow triangle and white stars on a dark blue background -- represented unity, not division.

He said it would be carried by the Bosnian team at the Winter Olympics in Japan on Saturday.

Mr Westendorp's decision comes after Bosnian Serbs and Croats opposed designs without national symbols, and follows his previous decision on the final design of Bosnia's currency.

Mark Sensen, 4 February 1998

The information that I will present now is based on the "article" in the 15:00 radio news on HRT Radio 1 (Croatian national radio).
It was told that after the Parliament failed to adopt the new flag, the High Representative Carlos Westerndorp is going to decide and impose the flag. His decision is not yet officially si