The international position of the minorities after the World War I

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Ivanka VASILEVSKA¹ 

[1] Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus”, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, RNM;

关键词: nations;    nationalism;    minority rights;    southeastern europe;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The minority issues in the era of creation of the nations and nationalism in Europe during the XIX century,directly affected the existence of the Ottoman Empire. In fact, the minority problems in Southeastern Europe werean indirect generator of the crucial issues within the international concert. Observed from the aspect of the religiousprotectorate, these issues inspired the Russian-Turkish military clashes and started the wave of national uprisingsamong the Balkan peoples, which culminated during the Balkan wars. The struggle for primacy over the Christianpopulation within the Ottoman Empire also affected the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Russian Empire. In acertain moment, even France demonstrated its interest, becoming not only a strategic partner of the Ottomans andprotector of the Orthodox Christian population on the Balkan during the period from the end of the Crimean War in1856 until the outbreak of the Great Eastern crisis. At the 1919 international conference in Paris, a more serious,though unsuccessful attempt was made to protect minorities from possible tortures and injustices of any kind. Infact, we can safely conclude that the purpose of establishing the Corps Minority Issues within the Versailles systemwas not contained in the intention to resolve minority problems, but to construct appropriate ways that wouldencourage intervention. This approach, both politically and from a legal, and, of course, from a psychological pointof view, represented a very sensitive area, which often resulted in a collision with the individual interests of thestates, and at the same time threatened to disrupt the already established international relations. It is very obviousthat the system of minority issues after the war was limited exceptionally to the weaker countries, and especiallytreated those countries which were defeated in the same war. In no existing sense this system could be implementedin the internal law of all the states-members of the League of Nations. Therefore, the international problematizationof the issues from the minority corpus slipping through its historical progress, entering the phase when theyculminated in the concentration camps, or, in the slightly better version, in the emigration in the countries of the newworld.

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