O oportunitate ratată. Marea Britanie şi ratificarea Tratatului de la Paris privind Basarabia
A Missed Opportunity. Great Britain and the Ratification of the Paris Treaty Regarding Bessarabia

Summary/Abstract: On April 10, 1922, Genoa began hosting an international conference to discuss the issue of the debts after the First World War, the new financial organization of the world, to provide a plan for the economic reconstruction of Central and Eastern Europe. At the same time, by inviting the representatives of the Bolshevik regime in Moscow, the purpose was to regulate the financial issues with it (the debts made by the Tsarist government during the war and the damages for the goods confiscated by the new power). A solution to this problem would have also allowed the international diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia. Starting from the negotiations carried out in Warsaw, in the fall of 1921, between the Romanian diplomatic representative to Poland, Constantin Filaliti, and the Soviet plenipotentiary minister Lev Karahan, the British diplomacy identified the issues that the Romanian-Soviet dispute regarding Bessarabia could raise during the future conference in Genoa.The Great Powers had acknowledged the unification of this historical province with the Romanian kingdom during the Peace Conference in Versailles, through the Treaty concluded on October 28, 1920 and signed by Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan. The United States had refused to sign the Treaty. In early 1922, the Treaty had not been ratified by any of the parties and thus it could not enter into force. In this context, the Foreign Office took a set of measures; their purpose was not to block the emergence of the Romanian-Russian dispute on the agenda of the conference, but to limit its effects within the general setting of the discussions. The most important decision was the ratification of the Treaty regarding Bessarabia.

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