Bajin, Zoran (2019) Nikola Pašić and Italy on the eve of the establishment of the Yugoslav state (1917–1918). In: The day worth a century: 1. XII 1918, ed. by Radovan Cukić, Veselinka Kastratović Ristić, Marija Vasiljević. Belgrade: Museum of Yugoslavia, pp. 31-48. ISBN 978-86-84811-50-1

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Although Italy and Serbia were allies in World War I, their relations were strained because of several disputed issues and particularly due to Italian aspirations to a large part of the eastern Adriatic coast, which was also being claimed by Serbia as part of its Yugoslav program. The Serbian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Pašić strove to reach an agreement with Italy’s Foreign Minister Sonnino, but the latter was reluctant to give up on the promises made to Italy by the Allies in the Treaty of London. After Italian military defeats in late 1917, Italo-Yugoslav negotiations were taken over by the Yugoslav Committee and unofficial Italian representatives. As the results of these talks proved merely peripheral, the crucial factor was the development of the situation in the battlefield, and both Sonnino and Pašić stalled their decisions and waited for a clear outcome

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