Signing of the Dayton Agreement, Peace Conference, 1995 US photograph: Three men sit at a long table lettered 'CONFERENCE

Signing of the Dayton Agreement, Peace Conference on the former Yugoslavia, photograph (Paris, 14 December 1995)

Three men sit at a long table lettered 'CONFERENCE DE PAIX SUR L'EX-YOUGOSLAVIE / PARIS' with open folders in front of them, while six men in dark suits stand behind and applaud in a gilded room. The tells are the row of applauding leaders arranged behind the three signatories and the conference lettering on the table, which present the agreement as an international, collectively backed settlement.

Propaganda techniques used in this photograph

Date
December 14, 1995
Made by
White House photograph distributed by NATO on Flickr (U.S. government work)

Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
Region
North America
Issuer type
State
Regime
Clinton Administration
Leader
Bill Clinton
Audience
Mixed
Purpose
Reassure
Theme
War and the military
Event
Yugoslav Wars
Source
Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source
Wikimedia Commons (from NATO on Flickr), retrieved October 11, 2026
Rights
Public domain (U.S. government work, PD-USGov-POTUS per Commons)
NATO (Flickr), White House photograph, public domain as a U.S. government work, via Wikimedia Commons.

Text on the object

Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked

CONFÉRENCE DE PAIX SUR L'EX-YOUGOSLAVIE
PARIS

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

Peace Conference on the former Yugoslavia, Paris. (Literal translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.)