On November 8, 2016, the United Nations Security Council, acting under its Chapter VII authority, passed a resolution renewing its authorization of the European-led multinational stabilization force in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR ALTHEA) for another year. According to the press release, “Council members took the floor to urge leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina to pursue reconciliation under compliance with the Dayton Accord, with most expressing concern over tensions that surrounded the referendum on Republika Srpska Day.” A large portion of the region's Muslim Bosniaks and Catholic Croatians are opposed to the holiday, “which coincides with a Serbian Orthodox Christian festival and also marks the Serb territory's 1992 secession from Bosnia, which triggered a bloody three-year war.”