JUGOSLAVIA AND TRIESTE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24914, 29 June 1946, Page 7

JUGOSLAVIA AND TRIESTE

Full Sovereignty Demanded

ONLY ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright.) (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) Trieste “The only solution of the Trieste problem that Jugoslavia can accept is Jugoslav control? said the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Edvard Kardelj). He warned that an iron curtain would isolate Trieste from central and eastern Europe if Jugoslav views not met by the Foreign Ministers, and added that he had no previous knowledge of the proposals made by Mr Molotov last night Mr Kardelj rejected Mr Bidault s compromise plans for international status for Trieste with a plebiscite 10 years hence. He said the solution should be settled now. Jugoslavia also would not accept a settlement by the 21 nations at the Peace Conference on the Italian-Jugoslav border questions and would reject the proposal that the United Nations Assembly should take up the matter in September. Jugoslavia would logically refuse to grant any economic or transport facilities across its territory if Trieste was not under Jugoslav sovereignty, In which case economic relations between centra! and western Europe would be difficult Mr Kardelj. outlining an acceptable solution, said Jugoslavia must have sovereignty over Trieste, but would be willing to assume international obligations to guarantee Trieste a full measure of self-government by granting the status of a federal unit. She would recognise Trieste as a free port outside her customs unit and make certain rectifications of the new proposals for the Italian-Jugoslav frontier.

TRIESTE POLICE DETAINED ACTION BY JUGOSLAV AUTHORITIES (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDpN, June 27. “The police reported to have been ‘kidnapped’ in Venezia Giulia yesterday wer.e detained by the Jugoslav authorities for questioning because theM entered a neutral road separating an Allied zone from the Jugoslav zone while travelling near the Morgan Line,” says Reuter’s Trieste correspondent. “The party comprised the vice-inspector of the Trieste military police and four members of the Venezia Giulia civil police. All have now been released.”