DELEGATION OF THE KINGDOM OF THE REPUBLIC OF PARIS PEACEFUL CONFERENCE AND THE ALBANIAN QUESTION Cover Image

ДЕЛЕГАЦИЈАТА НА КРАЛСТВОТО НА СХС НА ПАРИСКАТА МИРОВНА КОНФЕРЕНЦИЈА И АЛБАНСКОТО ПРАШАЊЕ
DELEGATION OF THE KINGDOM OF THE REPUBLIC OF PARIS PEACEFUL CONFERENCE AND THE ALBANIAN QUESTION

Author(s): Isamedin Azizi
Subject(s): Diplomatic history
Published by: Институт за национална историја
Keywords: SKS Kingdom; Conference of Paris; Nikola Pashik; Ante Trumbic; Woodrow Vilson; Clemensso.

Summary/Abstract: The dread from the Great War planted the desire to millions of people that peace that will be decided upon its end to be everlasting and right. But even at the Peace Conference in Paris, the prevailing political practice of the winner’s inalienable right over the gaining of territories and the imposition of severe peace conditions through the secret diplomacy and the compensation policy continued to prevail. And on the basis of these principles, the Peace Conference of Paris also begins working. SKS’s Kingdom for the first time in this conference begins its political life in the international arena. With this occasion, it presents its political attitudes and aspirations, being imposed as an important factor in subsequent diplomatic and international events. In this context, the paper in question treats and analyzes the views of the delegation of the Kingdom of SKS in this conference, regarding the Albanian and Adriatic issues. Based on Yugoslav documents taken from the Yugoslav Archives in Belgrade, the paper also deals with Yugoslav claims that appear through three memoranda sent to the Conference of Paris. Our treatment will include the disagreements between it’s members of this delegation about their positions in relation to Albania and other parts of Dalmatia. The paper concludes with information of the decision of the Belgrade government to stop engaging the members of the Yugoslav delegation at this conference.

  • Issue Year: 63/2019
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 127-139
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Macedonian