STERN YUGOSLAV NOTE TO ALBANIA
BELGRADE, Nov. 2. In a stern Note which fell only little short of an ultimatum, Yugoslavia cautioned Albania last night to return to its policy of friendship and co-opera-tion with Marshal Tito’s Government and to restore and carry out its treaty obligations, says the Associated Press. The formal Note added that:—“The Yugoslav Government considers it desirable that, the Albanian Government answer this Note in the shortest possible time.”
The Note was drafted in the most abrupt terms of any of the exchanges which have passed between Yugoslavia and the Russian-led Cominform countries since the bitter Balkan war of words began nineteen months ago. Yugoslavia listed a long series of complaints against Albania, including border provocations, frontier shooting's, persecution of Yugoslav citizens in Albania and espionage by Albanian agents in Yugoslavia. In the Note, which was handed to the Foreign Office in Tiranna, Yugoslavia said that it had held fast by the terms of the friendship treaty but declared that it was not sufficient for only the Yugoslav Government to fulfil its obligations.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23093, 4 November 1949, Page 5
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