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E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)
- 2 -
Dept. of State letter, Aug. 10, 1972
BYNITHE NARS Date 7.29.75
administration to these disputed areas in order that their
final disposition may not be prejudiced by one or other of
the claimants. We expect the Yugoslav Government, as an
ally and a member of the United Nations, to cooperate with-
out further delay.
2. A basic problem is the establishment of a democratic
government in Yugoslavia. The present Tito regime is thor-
oughly totalitarian in character. The Yalta formula provided
for the formation of a united government, on the understand-
ing that the Assembly (Avnoj) would be expanded to include
uncompromised members of the last Parliament. No progress
whatever has been made in the fulfillment of this program.
We consider that in addition to the specific section on
Yugoslavia in the Yalta documents, the Yalta Declaration on
Liberated Europe is equally applicable to the situation in
Yugoslavia. In that country today there is no democratic or
representative administration, no free press, no arrangement
for free elections, no toleration of political organization
outside the Tito organization. Large areas of the country
are blacked out from the rest of the world, - in parts of
Serbia, where civil war is latent, and in Croatia, where
Tito
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