Делегација Србије на Првој конференцији мира 1899. године – упутства и извештаји
Serbian Delegation at the First Peace Conference, 1899 – Instructions and Reports

Summary/Abstract: Serbia was one of the 26 countries which sent their delegates to take part in the proceedings of the First Peace Conference held at The Hague in 1899. This paper provides several documents which are of the great significance for the understanding of the position Serbian government took regarding the questions at the center of heated debates during the conference. These documents are kept in the Archive of Serbia, in the fund of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The first one – Instructions to the Serbian delegates at The Hague conference – provides an insight into the inner nature of government’s stance on various important issuses: limitations of armaments, pacific settlement of international disputes etc. Other two documents are the reports of Serbian delegates about the proceedings of various commissions and analyses of the positions of other countries. These reports are of great value because they provide us the opportunity not only to examine the offical stand of Serbian government concerning a wide range of subjects broached at the Hague, but also to analyze the decision making process by taking into account the standpoint of Serbian delegates on issuses such as mediation, international commissions of inquiry, international arbitration and the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

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