Bled agreement (1947)
The Bled agreement (also referred to as the "Tito–Dimitrov treaty") was signed on 1 August 1947 by
visas and allowed for a customs union. It was also the first time that Bulgaria recognized ethnic Macedonians and the Macedonian language
.
These agreements marked the mutual aspirations and efforts to develop new relations between the two countries. They agreed that the government will take over NR Bulgaria to ensure the rights of ethnic Macedonians in Pirin Macedonia (now
Evksinograd. The treaty contains several agreements on: economic cooperation, customs facilitation, preparation of a customs union, facilitation of border crossings, border crossing on the border of population and of the citizenship between the two countries. The Yugoslav Government waived $25 million in war damages owed by Bulgaria towards Yugoslavia
.
However, differences soon emerged between Tito and Dimitrov with regard to both the future joint country and the
Macedonization of Pirin Macedonia
gradually grew into outright alarm.
The policies resulting from the agreement were reversed after the
CIA document from November 1948, declassified in 2011, outlines the tensions between the two countries and the outlook of the people of Yugoslav Macedonia.[6]
See also
Notes
- ^ http://macedonia.kroraina.com/pamphlets/bled_1947.htm
- ^ H.R. Wilkinson Maps and Politics. A Review of the Ethnographic Cartography of Macedonia, Liverpool, 1951. pp. 311–312.
- ISBN 1134665113, p. 183.
- ISBN 1850655340. pp. 107–108.
- ^ Stavrianos (1964)
- ^ CIA Information report, November 1948 "YUGOSLAV-BULGARIAN TENSION IN THE YUGOSLAV-MACEDONIA REGION"
References
- Stavrianos, L. (1964) Balkan Federation: A History of the Movement Toward Balkan Unity in Modern Times. (Hamden, CT: Archon Books).
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