Niš Declaration
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The Niš Declaration (Serbian: Нишка декларација/Niška deklaracija) was a public declaration of war objectives of the Kingdom of Serbia made on 7 December 1914 after successful offensives of the Royal Serbian Army. The government issued a statement in Niš, approved by the National Assembly, which included a call for Yugoslav unification. It was stated that Serbia's objective was to unite the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes into a common state, to be established 'on the ruins of Austria-Hungary'. This state would become a pillar of stability in Europe, it was said. The Niš Declaration did not recognise Macedonians as a separate "tribe". They were seen together with Bosniaks as an "unformed element" that could be eventually assimilated as Serbs.[1]
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- ^ John R. Lampe (28 March 2000). Yugoslavia as History: Twice There Was a Country. Cambridge University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-521-77401-7.
Neither did any recognition of a separate Macedonian "tribe"; they were still regarded as an "unformed element," like the Bosnian Muslims, that could be easily assimilated as Serbs.
- Vasa Čubrilović; Ferdo Čulinović (1969). Naučni skup: u povodu 50-godišnjice raspada Austro-Ugarske monarhije i stvaranja Jugoslavenske države : Zagreb, 27-28. prosinca 1968. godine. Jugoslovenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti.
- Đorđe Đ Stanković (2009). Srbija i stvaranje Jugoslavije. Službeni glasnik. ISBN 978-86-519-0108-2.
- http://www.nspm.rs/politicki-zivot/101-godina-niske-deklaracije.html.
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