Representative's report of 27 November 1998. The Council expresses its disappointment that the FRY has still not complied with the call made in the Bonn and Luxembourg Declarations for effective access to records and data relevant to the settlement of succession issues.The Council reaffirms the need for access to such information.

2. The Council, recognizing that four of the successor States have already assumed their shares of the external liabilities of the former SFRY, regrets that agreement has not yet been reached even on a partial and interim distribution of its external assets. The Council invites its member States to consider ways in which those successor States might be enabled to gain access to appropriate shares of those external assets.

3. The Council requests the High Representative to submit in due course a report on the possibilities of having recourse to arbitration for those issues which in his judgement cannot be resolved by consensus.

4. The Council, bearing in mind the Declarations of the Sintra, Bonn and Luxembourg meetings, exhorts all the States to continue their co-operation with the Special Negotiator and to renew their efforts to resolve as soon as possible outstanding succession issues, and to that end to explore all possible means whereby early progress be made.

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