Editing Cyrus Vance (section)

==Later career in law and as special envoy==
In 1991, he was named [[Special Envoy]] of the [[Secretary-General of the United Nations]] for Croatia and proposed the [[Vance plan]] for solution of [[Croatian War of Independence|conflict in Croatia]]. Authorities of [[Croatia]] and [[Serbia]] agreed to Vance's plan, but the leaders of [[SAO Krajina]] rejected it, even though it offered Serbs quite a large degree of autonomy by the rest of the world's standards, as it did not include full independence for Krajina. He continued his work as member of [[Z-4 plan|Zagreb 4 group]]. The plan they drafted, named [[Z-4 plan|Z-4]], was effectively superseded when Croatian forces retook the Krajina region ([[Operation Storm]]) in 1995.

In January 1993, as the [[United Nations]] Special Envoy to Bosnia, Vance and Lord [[David Owen]], the [[European Union|EU]] representative, began negotiating a [[Peace plans offered before and during the Bosnian War#Vance-Owen|peace plan]] for the ending the [[War in Bosnia]]. The plan was rejected, and Vance announced his resignation as Special Envoy to the UN Secretary-General. He was replaced by Norwegian Foreign Minister [[Thorvald Stoltenberg]].

In 1997, he was made the original honorary chair of the [[American Iranian Council]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Khoda Hafez |url=http://www.american-iranian.org/sites/default/files/aicupdates/9._aic_update_issue_no._91_.html |title=A Message from AIC on the Occasion of the New Year |publisher=American Iranian Council |access-date=September 20, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110614005654/http://american-iranian.org/sites/default/files/aicupdates/9._aic_update_issue_no._91_.html |archive-date=June 14, 2011}}</ref>