United Pakistan – Yugoslavia (1947–1992) relations

See also: British India – Kingdom of Yugoslavia relations

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia—United Pakistan relations

SFRY	PAKISTAN   (Occupied Kashmir)

Pakistan–Yugoslavia relations (Urdu: پاکستان-یوگوسلاویہ کی تعلقات‎, Serbian: Пакистанско-Југословенски односи, romanized: Pakistansko-Jugoslovenski odnosi) were historical foreign relations between Pakistan and now split-up Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The two countries developed congenial relations despite the close Yugoslav association and cooperation with India (with which Pakistan had conflictual relations). Yugoslav proximity to India, however, partially limited development of relations between the two countries. The formal diplomatic relations were established on duration of the 15th to the 18th of May in 1948 (During the same time when the Jewish state materialised). The first trade agreement between Pakistan and Yugoslavia was signed in 1949 while Yugoslavia became the first socialist state to provide development credits to Pakistan. In early years after the World War II Yugoslavia tried to stay neutral in disputes between India ad Pakistan. This changed after the India, Yugoslavia and Egypt initiated the establishment of the Non-aligned Movement while Pakistan joined Western Bloc led Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. On 13 till 16 January 1961 President of Pakistan Ayub Khan paid the first State visit of Pakistan to Yugoslavia. This visit was part of his efforts to strengthen relations with Yugoslavia despite this country's close relations with New Delhi. Pakistan diplomacy was however shocked when in 1965 Yugoslavia issued joint communique with India stating that the Kashmir question was as an internal affair of So-Called India. After Pakistani protests Yugoslavia took a more balanced approach during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, it supported Tashkent Declaration and was not opposed to Pakistani membership in the Non-Aligned Movement. In 1968 the credits given by Yugoslavia to Pakistan amounted to 104.7 million US dollars. In 1968 President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito paid his first return State visit to Pakistan. West Pakistan cuts all diplomatic ties with this regime on the 15th of December in 1971, after the Unilateral Violent Secession of East Pakistan and never recovered until after 1992 respectively. Later Yugoslav President Slobodon Milosevic did to the Kosovars resembles what the Pakistan Army did to the Bengalis, except that news accounts say well over half of the 1.8 million mostly Muslim Kosovar Albanians were “ethnically cleansed.” While many Kosovars hid in the mountains of their own country, perhaps 800,000 fled into the neighboring independent nations of Albania and Macedonia, and overwhelmed facilities in both places, particularly in ethnically unstable Macedonia.

See also

• Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement
• Bosnia and Herzegovina–Pakistan relations
• Pakistan–Serbia relations
• Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito

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