ЕМИГРАНТСКА ВЛАДА КРАЉЕВИНЕ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ И АЛБАНСКО ПИТАЊЕ (1941–1944)
THE YUGOSLAV ROYAL GOVERNMENT IN EXILE AND THE ALBANIAN QUESTION

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to unravel the foundation of a political agenda of the Yugoslav Royal Government in Exile in regard to the Albanian factor in the Balkans, primarily through observation of its representatives interaction with a former Albanian king Zogu, and other Allied instances. The Yugoslav emigrant apparatus closely followed a development of the Greek and British plans for the solution of the Albanian question after the Second World War, and actively participated in their creation. The policy of the Yugoslav Government had two main layers. The first was circulating in a triangle of Yugoslav – Greek – British foreign politics, and the second was based in the sphere of the Yugoslav interests in the occupied provinces that were annexed to Great Albania, which was a fascist puppet state. Those interests included a responsability for the Yugoslav citizens in the Albanian concentration camps and a coordination between two guerilla movements, general Dragoljub Mihailović on one side, and various Albanian formations on the other. The greatest significance of the article is in the fact that it merges the results of the numerous publications that were previously known in the professional and reading circles. These are the unpublished documents that were produced by the Yugoslav bureaucracy in London and Constantinopole during the attempts to develop a closer cooperation with the Albanian exiles, in accord to the states interests and a common Allied cause.

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