Editing Corfu Declaration (section)

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{{short description|1917 manifesto on unification of South Slavs}}
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|image_caption= The Corfu Declaration
|date_created=  20 July 1917
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|location_of_document= [[Corfu (city)|Corfu]], [[Kingdom of Greece]]
|writer= [[Nikola Pašić]] and [[Ante Trumbić]]
|signers= Nikola Pašić for the [[Kingdom of Serbia]] and Ante Trumbić for the [[Yugoslav Committee]]
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The '''Corfu Declaration''' ({{lang-sh-Latn-Cyrl|Krfska deklaracija|Крфска декларација}}) was an agreement between the [[Prime Minister of Serbia|prime minister]] of [[Kingdom of Serbia|Serbia]], [[Nikola Pašić]], and the president of the [[Yugoslav Committee]], [[Ante Trumbić]], concluded on the [[Kingdom of Greece|Greek]] island of [[Corfu]] on 20&nbsp;July 1917. Its purpose was to establish the method of [[Creation of Yugoslavia|unifying a future common state]] of the [[South Slavs]] living in Serbia, [[Kingdom of Montenegro|Montenegro]] and [[Austria-Hungary]] after the [[First World War]]. [[Russian Empire|Russia]]'s decision to withdraw diplomatic support for Serbia following the [[February Revolution]], as well as the Yugoslav Committee's sidelining by the [[Trialism in Austria-Hungary|trialist reform initiatives]] launched in Austria-Hungary, motivated both sides to attempt to reach an agreement.

Pašić and Trumbić's positions were disparate. Pašić advocated for a [[Centralized government|centralist government]], while Trumbić argued for a [[Federation|federal state]], leaving significant powers to federal units and safeguarding national rights. The resulting declaration glossed over the matter of the system of government. As a compromise, it specified only that the common [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]] would be a constitutional monarchy ruled by the currently reigning Serbian [[Karađorđević dynasty]], deferring most questions to a future Constitutional Assembly. During the discussions, which lasted 35 days, Trumbić had little support for his view from the other members of the Yugoslav Committee, who were preoccupied with the threat posed by [[Kingdom of Italy|Italy]], which had been promised territory under the 1915 [[Treaty of London (1915)|Treaty of London]].