PREGOVORI KRALJEVINE SHS I ITALIJE OD OKUPACIJE RIJEKE DO RIMSKOG SPORAZUMA 1924. GODINE
NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF SHS AND ITALY FROM THE OCCUPATION OF RIJEKA TO THE TREATY OF ROME IN 1924

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the complex process of diplomatic activities of the Kingdom of SHS and Italy in order to reach an agreement on mutually disputed issues, in which the central place was occupied by the commonly named Rijeka/Fiume issue. This issue was a foreign policy issue for the Kingdom of SHS, if viewed within the framework of relations with Italy, and an internal political issue if viewed within the framework of the government's conflict with the Croatian opposition. The chronological framework included in the work covers the period from the Italian occupation of Rijeka on September 16, 1923, to the signing of the Treaty of Rome on January 27, 1924. The Italian occupation of Rijeka changed the negotiating positions and the very character of the negotiations, because the Italians put the territory under direct control. The negotiations were conducted directly, according to a plan previously established by Benito Mussolini. After the crisis worsened, the negotiating initiative went from Nikola Pašić to Momčilo Ninčić, the Kingdom of SHS’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, whose solutions to the aforementioned issue were largely formulated on the basis of King Aleksandar I Karađorđević’s views.

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