Austrijsko-jugoslavenski odnosi s austrijskoga gledišta
Austrian-Yugoslav Relations - An Austrian View

Summary/Abstract: Austrian-Yugoslav relations are considered from two major aspects: economic and political. Especially important for the economic relations between the two countries is bilateral trade, which is continuous and unaffected by the vagaries of current policies. It is characterized by a creator proportion of so-called higher-value commodities in Austrian export compared to imports and by a higher concentration of trade exchange in the two northernmost Yugoslav constituent republics. Slovenia and Croatia. Austro-Yugoslav co-operation in 'third markets' is regarded in both countries as a form of economic co-operation which could be expanded in the future. One of the central issues in political relations is the question of the South Slavonic ethnic groups in Austria. Both the economic and the political relations are subject to the influence of certain factors of stabilisation, or destabilisation. Among the stabilising factors, the most important arc. economic relations and co-operation, regional co-operation between Austrian federal provinces and Yugoslav republics. Austrian neutrality and Yugoslav non-alignment Among the destabilising factors, stress is laid on onesided and incomplete information about Yugoslavia provided to the Austrian public and Yugoslav agitation with respect to the position of minorities in Austria, as well as the deliberalisation of the Yugoslav economic and administrative systems.

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