YUGOSLAV STATEMENTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-01634R000100060006-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 6, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 31, 1958
• Content Type: PREL

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Attachment 3.
YUGOSIAV STATEMENTS
1. Jaksa Petric, Yugoslav Foreign Ministry spokesman, stated on 30
May that the unilateral Soviet act was "in glaring contradiction with
established standards in international relations." Petric described
the USSR action as "completely arbitrary." At the same time, the
Yugoslav weekly Ekonauska Politika accused the USSR of attaching political
strings to its amid program. Elie Abel in New York Times, 31 May 1955.)
2. On 3 June, Yugoslav Foreign Minister Popovic handed a note to the
Soviet Ambassador stating that Yugoslavia would claim damages unless the
USSR honored its aid agreements. The note informed the USSR that "In case
the Soviet government fails to honor fully the credits agreement, Yugo-
slavia would be compelled to claim damages incurred to the Yugoslav economy
by the Soviet unilateral act." (AP Belgrade 3 June 19,58.)
3. On 30 May, the Yugoslav Ambassador to Egypt held a press conference
in which he said that the Soviet credit suspension proved that Soviet aid
was not without strings.
4. On 26 June, Vice-President of the Yugoslav Federal Executive Council
Mijalko Todorovic referred to the Soviet aid suspension and stated that
"We now seriously ask: how is it possible to conclude any long term economic
agreements with some countkies -- agreements which call for engaging cadres,
material, and other menas for a definite period of time -- when one is not
certain whether and when the obligations entered into will be honored, so
that everything that has been done may be in vain'?" (TANYUG, Belgrade,
Hellschreiber to Europe, 26 June.)
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