In the capital of the allied state. Romanian diplomats in Belgrade (1919-1941)
In the capital of the allied state. Romanian diplomats in Belgrade (1919-1941)

Summary/Abstract: Relations between Romania and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia went through several stages in the period 1919-1941. From the tensions marked by the Banat issue (1919-1920), at the level of allied countries within the Little Entente (from 1921) and the Balkan Entente (from 1934). That is why Romania’s diplomatic mission in Belgrade, raised to the status of an embassy between 1939 and 1940, was an important diplomatic post in Romania’s diplomatic network. However, in the analyzed period, the diplomatic mission had a staff equivalent to that of the diplomatic representations in the capitals of other allied states (Prague, Warsaw), but less numerous compared to Romania’s diplomatic missions in the capitals of the great powers (Paris, London, Washington). But unlike the diplomatic mission in Warsaw and the capitals of other important states for Romania’s foreign policy, the legation and then the embassy in Belgrade was led by five heads of mission. This fact demonstrates a stability at the level of the leadership of the diplomatic mission in the capital of the neighboring and allied state. At the same time, analyzing the profile of the diplomats who were active in the period 1919-1941 at the diplomatic mission in Belgrade, we notice, on the one hand, that most of them had law studies, and, on the other hand, that it existed at the level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania the tendency to train diplomats specialized in Balkan matters.

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