JUGOSLOVENSKI NASTUP NA KONFERENCIJI O EVROPSKOJ BEZBEDNOSTI I SARADNJI U HELSINKIJU 1973–1975.
YUGOSLAV PARTICIPATION IN THE HELSINKI CONFERENCE ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE 1973–1975

Summary/Abstract: During the Conference in Helsinki from July 1973 to August 1975, Yugoslavia, together with a group of European non-aligned and neutral countries, to a large extent contributed to freeing this conference from the antagonistic frame of block confrontations and to approaching the solution of key international problems through democratic dialogue of the participants. Yugoslav government gave great importance to the outcome of the Conference on European Security and Cooperation, because they believed that this meeting could potentially play a very important role, both within the reaffirmation of the basic premise of the policy of non-alignment, as well as the efforts to strengthen the European component of the Yugoslav foreign policy. During the meeting in Helsinki, Yugoslavia showed a special interest regarding the solution of one of the key issues on the agenda of the Conference – the questions of inviolability of borders. Namely, at this time there was a new Yugoslav-Italian dispute over the demarcation line between the two countries in the area of Trieste, established by the London Memorandum in 1954. On the other hand, in Helsinki Yugoslavia provided a favorable outcome of the debate on the necessity of linking the questions of European security with the security of the Mediterranean. This issue was due to Yugoslav initiative, included in the agenda of the Conference as a separate topic review. Given the important role of Yugoslavia at the Conference on European Security and Cooperation, the participants of this mee ting agreed with the proposal that the next conference should be held in Belgrade by the middle of 1977.

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