Belgrade declaration

Belgrade declaration
Nikita Khrushchev, Josip Broz Tito and Nikolai Bulganin in Belgrade, 30 May 1955
TypeDeclaration
ContextPost-Stalinist normalization of relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union
Signed2 June 1955 (1955-06-02)
Signatories Josip Broz Tito
Parties

The Belgrade declaration (Russian: Белградская декларация, Serbo-Croatian: Beogradska deklaracija, Београдска декларација, Slovene: Beograjska deklaracija, Macedonian: Белградска декларација) is a document signed by President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on 2 June 1955 that brought about a short reconciliation between the two states.[1][2][3] Negotiations leading up to the signing of the document took place between 27 May and 2 June.[3]

The declaration guaranteed noninterference in Yugoslavia's internal affairs and legitimized the right to interpret other forms of socialist development in different countries.[4] While the declaration failed in achieving lasting rapprochement between the two countries (a result of Yugoslav anxiety over the Hungarian Revolution of 1956) it had an effect on Yugoslav disengagement from the Balkan Pact with the NATO member states of Turkey and Greece.[2] The document was a cornerstone for the relations between the two countries for the following 35 years.[5]

  1. ^ "The signing ceremony of the Belgrade Declaration, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 2 July 1955. Artist: Anon". Heritage Images. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b Žarković, Petar. "Yugoslavia and the USSR 1945 - 1980: The History of a Cold War Relationship". YU historija. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  3. ^ a b Edemskiy, A. B. "БЕЛГРА́ДСКАЯ ДЕКЛАРА́ЦИЯ 1955". Great Russian Encyclopedia (in Russian). Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  4. ^ Lazić, Milorad (4 December 2017). "The Soviet Intervention that Never Happened". Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  5. ^ Goldstein, Ivo; Goldstein, Slavko (2020). Tito (in Croatian). Zagreb: Profil. p. 558. ISBN 978-953-313-750-6.