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Assembly of the Delegates of the Slovene Nation
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The assembly elected the legislative body of the Slovene liberated areas. During its deliberations, the Assembly elected the 120-member legislative body known as the Slovene National Liberation Committee, the Committee sent representatives to the second session of AVNOJ held at Jajce, in central Bosnia on 29 November 1943. They were instrumental in adding the clause to the resolution on the establishment of the future federal Yugoslavia. At the Črnomelj Session on 19–20 February 1944, the Slovene National Liberation Committee renamed itself to the Slovene National Liberation Council and it was the Slovene equivalent of similar councils established by the Partisans in other regions of Yugoslavia. After its creation, SNOS acceded to all decisions of the session of AVNOJ. War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945, Occupation and Collaboration
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Austro-Slovene conflict in Carinthia
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The Slovenes were loyal to the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, while the Austrians were loyal to the newly proclaimed Republic of German Austria. The disputed territory had belonged to the Austro-Hungarian empire, at the centre of conflict was the position of the border that separated the two new states. In Slovene-language historiogaphy, the conflict is known as the Boj za severno mejo, slovene-speaking regions were integrated into several Austrian states throughout much of the 2nd millennium. As a consequence of Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbian Kingdom the Yugoslav committee was formed, in 1916 the Serbian parliament in exile voted in favour of creating a Kingdom of Yugoslavia as a plan of post-world war governance of the Balkan peninsula. As a consequence of the World War, the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to even before an official end to war was declared. In period between 5–8 October 1918 a pro-Yugoslav National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs took control over the administration in Zagreb. On 29 October the National Council declared the formation of a Yugoslav state, no formal border was yet recognised among the newly created entities, with both sides claiming that they are in control of the area along the ethnically mixed settlements. The National Government in Ljubljana did not pay any attention to the border issue. The municipal council of the largely German-speaking town of Maribor declared the municipality to be a part of German-Austria on 30 October 1918. The National Council for Styria gave permission to take control of the branch in Maribor to Rudolf Maister, a veteran of the World War. He also gained the rank of a General, and was given authority over all military forces located in Styria under control of the Kingdom of SHS. On 9 November Maister announced full mobilization of Lower Styria, which was disagreed with by both, the German-Austrian government and authorities in Ljubljana. The mobilization decree was successful as the forces grew to about 4,000 fighters. First Lieutenant Franjo Malgaj and his unit entered Carinthia on November 6, captain Alfred Lavričs unit was designated to be in charge of capturing Carinthia, and began taking control of the territory on 13 November, when his units entered the Jaun Valley and Ferlach. The Loibl Pass was captured the following day, on November 23 Maisters fighters began to seize control of guard posts throughout the Maribor region by disarming the local guardsmen controlled by the Maribor municipality. Captain Rudolf Knez entered Sittersdorf and settled his units there, all the areas captured were agreed upon by General Rudolf Passy of Carinthia and General Maister on November 27. Units from Ljubljana took control of Dravograd, Lavamünd and Sankt Paul, the capture of Völkermarkt on November 30 sparked much criticism, as it allegedly wasnt included in the demarcation line plans. First armed clashes already occurred under command of Malgaj during the attack on Bleiburg, Lučane was the site of a first major clash between the two factions on January 14,1919
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Brioni Agreement
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The agreement sought to create an environment in which further negotiations on the future of Yugoslavia could take place. However, ultimately it isolated the federal prime minister Ante Marković in his efforts to preserve Yugoslavia and this meant the Yugoslav Peoples Army would focus on combat in Croatia, creating a precedent of redrawing international borders and staking the ECs interest in resolving the Yugoslav crisis. The agreement put an end to hostilities between the JNA and Slovene forces in the Ten-Day War, Slovenia and Croatia agreed to suspend activities stemming from their 25 June declarations of independence for a period of three months. The document also resolved border control and customs inspection issues regarding Slovenias borders, resolved air-traffic control responsibility, the Brioni Agreement also formed the basis for an observer mission to monitor implementation of the agreement in Slovenia. Eleven days after the agreement was made, the federal government pulled the JNA out of Slovenia, conversely, the agreement made no mitigating impact on fighting in Croatia. The EC viewed the declarations as unilateral moves and offered assistance in negotiations regarding the future of the SFR Yugoslavia instead, at the same time, the EC decided to suspend direct talks with Slovenia and Croatia. The move was welcomed by the Yugoslav federal government, Slovenia and Croatia declared independence on 25 June, and the Yugoslav Peoples Army units began to deploy from its bases in Slovenia the next day. On 27 June, armed conflict broke out as the JNA, a three-strong EC delegation made three visits to the region in late June and early July to negotiate a political agreement which would facilitate further negotiations. The delegation consisted of the ministers of Luxembourg, as the incumbent holder of the EC presidency, and Italy. The delegation members were Jacques Poos, Gianni de Michelis, prior to the delegations arrival in Belgrade, Poos told reporters that the EC would take charge of the crisis. There, the delegation was met by Serbian president Slobodan Milošević who dismissed the prospect of Croatia leaving the Yugoslav federation because its population contained 600,000 Serbs, on 29 June, Croatia and Slovenia agreed to suspend their declarations of independence to allow time for a negotiated settlement. The appearance of a success was reinforced when the JNA ordered its troops posted in Slovenia to return to their barracks, a further result of the EC delegations mission were talks attended by representatives of the EC, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and the Yugoslav government. The talks were held at Brijuni Islands on 7 July, besides the EC delegation, headed by van den Broek, five out of eight members of the federal presidency attended the talks—Mesić, Bogić Bogićević, Janez Drnovšek, Branko Kostić and Vasil Tupurkovski. Croatia was represented by President Franjo Tuđman while President Milan Kučan attended on behalf of Slovenia, Serbia was represented by Borisav Jović, a former Serbian member of the federal presidency who had resigned from the position on 15 June, instead of Milošević who refused to attend. Starting at 8 am, the EC delegation held separate talks with Kučan and his assistants, then with Tuđman and his assistants, and finally with Jović. In the afternoon, a meeting was held with the federal, Slovene and Croatian delegations in attendance. The agreement was prepared at the EC council of ministers in The Hague on 5 July and it consisted of a Joint Declaration, and two annexes detailing the creation of an environment suitable to further political negotiations and guidelines for an observer mission to Yugoslavia. The ECMM helped calm several standoffs around military barracks in Slovenia, in Croatia, armed combat continued and the JNA shelled the city of Osijek the same evening the agreement was signed
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Carinthian plebiscite, 1920
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The Carinthian plebiscite was held on 10 October 1920 in the area predominantly settled by Carinthian Slovenes. It determined the final border between the Republic of Austria and the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after World War I. After the defeat of the multi-ethnic Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the ruling Habsburg dynasty in World War I, the rising tensions culminated in clashes of arms, as on Marburgs Bloody Sunday in Lower Styria and the continued fighting of paramilitary groups in southeastern Carinthia. These claims were rejected by the Carinthian provisional Landtag assembly on 25 October 1918, from November 5, Yugoslav forces moved into the settlement area of the Carinthian Slovenes from the Karavanke mountain range down to the Drava River and beyond. With the occupation of southeastern Carinthia by Yugoslav troops, the confrontation evolved into armed clashes, the provisional Carinthian government under Governor Arthur Lemisch decided to lead off the armed struggle in order to preserve the southern Carinthian border on the Karavanke range. Bitter fighting of paramilitary groups around Arnoldstein and Ferlach alarmed the Entente powers and they arbitrated a ceasefire, whereafter a nine-day U. S. Army commission under Lt. Col. Yugoslav representatives urged for a border on the Drava, American delegates however spoke in favor of preserving the unity of the Klagenfurt Basin and convinced the British, until May 7, all occupied Carinthian territories were vacated. When Yugoslav forces under General Rudolf Maister made an attempt to re-enter the region on 28 May 1919, a common state with other southern Slavic peoples seemed the most acceptable compromise toward fulfillment of nationalist strivings. The Treaty of Saint-Germain with the Republic of Austria, signed on 10 September 1919 and it ascertained that some small parts of Carinthia—i. e. Wanting to resolve the conflict peacefully, the Allied victors in World War I divided southeastern Carinthia into two zones, A in the south and B in the north, german speakers were concentrated in the town of Völkermarkt and certain smaller localities, especially around Bleiburg and Ferlach. Before the plebiscite, both sides waged intensive propaganda campaigns and it nevertheless also had an anti-Yugoslav tendency, picturing the conditions in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes as chaotic. Yugoslav propaganda almost exclusively used arguments emphasizing Slovene national awareness and it took an aggressive anti-German view from the beginning and turned to economic issues only in the last few weeks before the plebiscite. The campaigners were not capable of using the political instability of the young Austrian republic, despite the six-months term determined by the Treaty of Saint-Germain, the referendum was not held in Zone A until October 10,1920. Instead the Yugoslav army had to withdraw from Zone A in accord with the decision of the commission on 18 September 1920. Changes may also have made in electoral registers which allowed people from northern Zone B voting in Zone A. In the following decades both sides would continue to interpret and instrumentalize the plebiscites circumstances in their own way. The outcome of the held on 10 October, was 22,025 votes in favor of adhesion to Austria and 15,279 in favor of annexation by the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats. Assumed that the whole German-speaking minority had voted for Austria, also every second Carinthian Slovene had decided to remain with the Republic, another Yugoslav foray was fiercely rejected by the Entente powers
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Constitution of Slovenia
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The Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia is the fundamental law of the Republic of Slovenia. The large part of the work was completed at Podvin Castle near Radovljica in August 1990 under the leadership of the lawyer Peter Jambrek, the Constitution was adopted by the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia on 23 December 1991. In a disputed decision, the Constitutional Court of Slovenia ruled that if any law is to be passed, in the political events that followed the time was running out and changing the constitution seemed like a good escape from status quo. In March 2003, the amendment was passed that enabled for the transmission of certain legal powers to international organisations. This would allow Slovenia to enter the European Union and NATO if it be the will of the people, a referendum on such was held on 23 March 2003. As of December 2012, these have not been established yet
