ИЗВОЗОТ НА МАКЕДОНСКИОТ ОПИУМ ВО ЕВРОПА (1919–1941)
EXPORTS OF THE MACEDONIAN OPIUM TO EUROPE (1919-1941)

Summary/Abstract: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Opium Convention of 1912 each year was obliged to submit to the Secretariat of the League of Nations reports on opium production and traffic. Statistical traffic data on Macedonian opium of the Kingdom very often did not correspond to the statistical data in disposal of the European states. Inconsistencies of the statistical data resulted from the fact that in the first years after the end of the World War First the main traffickers of the Macedonian opium were trade firms from Thessaloniki without any control by the state authorities and due to fact that the Kingdom’s statistics was not accurate. As a result the volume of traffic in Macedonian opium in Europe in that period could not be precisely determined. The following options were provided as causes for that occurrence: repacking, resorting and re-trafficking in opium in the states as final destinations. Indications of final closure of the misunderstandings due to various statistical data appeared by the end of 1929 when the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ratified the Opium Convention. Nevertheless, the reports on opium quantity trafficked by domestic traders did not correspond to the foreign statistical data.

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