ИНЦИДЕНТИ НА ПРИВРЕМЕНОЈ ДЕМАРКАЦИОНОЈ ЛИНИЈИ И ПОКУШАЈ ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКО-ИТАЛИЈАНСКОГ РАЗГРАНИЧЕЊА 1948.
INCIDENTS ON THE TEMPORARY DEMARCATION LINE AND THE 1948 ATTEMPT OF THE YUGOSLAV-ITALIAN BOUNDARIES

Summary/Abstract: The problem of regulating the Yugoslav-Italian border was topical for a long period of time, from the end of the First World War, until the final demarcation with the signing of the Osimo Agreements in 1975. The article analyzes the attempts of the Yugoslav and Italian governments to determine the final line of the new borders established by the Peace Treaty. Pursuant to Article 5 of the Peace Treaty, the Italian and Yugoslav governments had an international obligation to jointly define the border line. Attempts to determine definite border lines and adjust the border to local geographical and economic conditions were accompanied by incidents at the border. The author points to the diplomatic contacts of the Yugoslav and Italian representatives in order to overcome the problems related to the determination of the final border. Given that an agreement could not be reached, and it was not possible to meet the six-month deadline set by Article 5 of the Treaty, the two governments continued to co-operate on other outstanding issues, while the demarcation was left for some better times. The article was written on the basis of unpublished archival material from the Diplomatic Archive in Belgrade and the Archives of Yugoslavia, published normative documents and literature in Serbian, Croatian and Slovenian.

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