Editing Belgrade declaration (section)

{{Short description|Declaration of relations between USSR and Yugoslavia}}
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| name                    = Belgrade declaration
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| image                   = Russische bezetters Joegoslavie, Bestanddeelnr 907-1635.jpg
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| caption                 = [[Nikita Khrushchev]], [[Josip Broz Tito]] and [[Nikolai Bulganin]] in Belgrade, 30 May 1955 
| type                    = Declaration
| context                 = Post-Stalinist normalization of relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union
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| date_signed             = {{Start date|1955|06|02|df=y}}
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*{{flagdeco|Soviet Union}} [[Nikita Khrushchev]]
{{flagdeco|Yugoslavia}} [[Josip Broz Tito]]
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*{{flag|Yugoslavia}}
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The '''Belgrade declaration''' ({{langx|ru|Белградская декларация}}, {{lang-sh-Latn-Cyrl|Beogradska deklaracija|Београдска декларација}}, {{langx|sl|Beograjska deklaracija}}, {{langx|mk|Белградска декларација}}) is a document signed by [[President of Yugoslavia]] [[Josip Broz Tito]] and Soviet leader [[Nikita Khrushchev]] on 2 June 1955 that brought about a short reconciliation between the two states.<ref>{{cite web|title=The signing ceremony of the Belgrade Declaration, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 2 July 1955. Artist: Anon|url=https://www.heritage-images.com/preview/2379125|website=Heritage Images|access-date=26 August 2021}}</ref><ref name="Zarkovic">{{cite web|last=Žarković|first=Petar|title=Yugoslavia and the USSR 1945 - 1980: The History of a Cold War Relationship|url=https://yuhistorija.com/int_relations_txt01c1.html |publisher=YU historija|access-date=26 August 2021}}</ref><ref name="Edemskiy">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Edemskiy|first=A. B.|title=БЕЛГРА́ДСКАЯ ДЕКЛАРА́ЦИЯ 1955|url=https://bigenc.ru/domestic_history/text/1853529|encyclopedia=[[Great Russian Encyclopedia]]|language=ru|access-date=27 August 2021|archive-date=27 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827090140/https://bigenc.ru/domestic_history/text/1853529|url-status=dead}}</ref> Negotiations leading up to the signing of the document took place between 27 May and 2 June.<ref name="Edemskiy" />

The declaration guaranteed noninterference in Yugoslavia's internal affairs and legitimized the right to interpret other forms of socialist development in different countries.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lazić|first=Milorad|date=4 December 2017|title=The Soviet Intervention that Never Happened|url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/the-soviet-intervention-never-happened|publisher=[[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars]]|access-date=26 August 2021}}</ref> While the declaration failed in achieving lasting [[rapprochement]] between the two countries (a result of Yugoslav anxiety over the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]]) it had an effect on Yugoslav disengagement from the [[Balkan Pact (1953)|Balkan Pact]] with the [[NATO]] member states of [[Turkey]] and [[Greece]].<ref name="Zarkovic" /> The document was a cornerstone for the relations between the two countries for the following 35 years.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Goldstein|first1=Ivo |author-link1=Ivo Goldstein |last2=Goldstein|first2=Slavko |author-link2=Slavko Goldstein |year=2020 |title=Tito|language=hr |location=Zagreb|publisher=Profil |page=558 |isbn=978-953-313-750-6}}</ref>