The balkans now had passed through one of the most turbulent era on its history. It all started in 1991 with the Ten-Day War and the conflicts perpetuated until the Macedonian Insurgency in 2001. Now, more than ever, the many nations in the region are determined to cease the conflicts, aiming long standing periods of peace and prosperity, allowing the recently created countries to develop their land.

    Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Croatia, and Macedonia are now fully independent nations from Yugoslavia, but the remnants of the war still haunts this countries and no harmony can be guaranteed. While Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina has passed through the most horrible wars in the entire balkanik history, Macedonia secession resulted on frequent conflicts with Greece and emerging insurrections and revolutions attempts. The newly created nations are having troubles to establish themselves and make their presences in the treaty aiming to avoid more conflict and build a prosper future for their countries.

    Although some nations are already independent, there are still many groups inside Yugoslavia aiming their independences. Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina are the main regions trying to detach from the serbs and are in eminence of possible wars, such the one happened in Kosovo in 1998.

    With this situation, many bordering nations and international powers demonstrated interested in find a plausible and prosper solution for the region, taking in consideration avoiding new wars. Greeks, turkish, bulgarians and albanians are being affected by the conflicts and have their own interests in the ways to calm down the situation. Besides those nations there are Hungary, Austria and Italy, countries with historical influence in the region, with their own interests in the feud.

    Given this scenery, Georgi Parvanov, recently elected president of Bulgaria for the Bulgarian Socialist Party, called for an urgent meeting in his country capital, Sofia, and invited other fourteen nations, three autonomous regions of Yugoslavia and the European Union ambassador for the balkans. The interest in this meeting is to build a peace treaty involving all parts of the conflicts to avoid new wars and repair the damages caused by past wars. With this meeting, many questions are brought to debate. Should Yugoslavia break up in even more countries? Should Yugoslavia pay for the damages they had done in their neighbours? What responsibilities each country has in maintaining peace in the region? How could the many different ethnic groups live in harmony in the region? How to attend population wishes and maintain each country's sovereignty?