On 12 November 1991, on a meeting chaired by Dario Kordić and Mate Boban, local party leaders of the HDZ BiH reached an agreement to undertake a policy of achieving an "age-old dream, a common Croatian State" and decided that the proclamation of a Croatian banovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina should be the "initial phase leading towards the final solution of the Croatian question and the creation of a sovereign Croatia within its ethnic and historical [...] borders."
On November 12, 1991, during a meeting led by Dario Kordić and Mate Boban, local HDZ BiH leaders agreed on a strategy to realize "a cherished aspiration for a unified Croatian state" and planned that the declaration of a Croatian banovina in Bosnia and Herzegovina would be the "initial stage toward addressing the Croatian issue and establishing an independent Croatia within its ethnic and historical boundaries."