ПРВА ТИТОВА ПОСЕТА ВАШИНГТОНУ – ПОСЛЕДЊИ КЕНЕДИЈЕВ МЕЂУНАРОДНИ АНГАЖМАН (17. ОКТОБАР 1963)
The First Tito’s Visit to Washington D.C. – the Last Kennedy’s International Meeting (October 17 1963)

Summary/Abstract: The several years long attempts of the US administration and the Yugoslav officials to organize Tito’s visit to the USA was fi nally realized in fall of 1963 when the leader of Yugoslav Communists met Kennedy in Washington D.C. after an marathon tour of Latin-American countries. The meeting was used for resolving the sticking points that marred the relations between the two countries, jeopardizing seriously their further cooperation. Although it was an one-day visit, which was formally given an air of a official meeting on the insistence of the American party, it had a much broader meaning and political signifi cance. After an ample exchange of opinions and clarifi cation of contents of imperatives of foreign policy that were guiding their respective countries, the two presidents managed to reconcile their views and to come to terms about the principles which would make up the new platform of Yugoslav-American relations. Since the fulfi llment of the American program of economic aid for Yugoslavia was a constant source of friction between the two countries, Tito told Kennedy his country wouldn’t insist on this form of bilateral economic cooperation, but rather on relations founded on mutual commercial interests. For his part, Kennedy had to reconcile himself with Belgrade’s intention to establish close relations with the bloc of socialist countries and to accept that fact as political reality which was by no means aimed against the USA since it didn’t presuppose inclusion of Yugoslavia into military and economic organizations of those states. Although the murder in Dallas put the tragic end to Kennedy’s carrier, the political premises of his agreement with Tito marked the period that followed, becoming the key determinants of the Yugoslav-American cooperation.

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