!!!Pariser Abkommen
Paris Agreement (Gruber-De Gasperi Agreement), a bilateral agreement
signed by the Austrian and Italian ministers of foreign affairs K.
Gruber and A. De Gasperi, on September 5, 1946. In this agreement the
protection of the German-speaking minority in Italy was guaranteed. It
became the annex to the peace treaty of 1947 with Italy and formed the
legal basis for the Austrian Ministry for Foreign Affairs to safeguard
the rights and interests of the German-speaking population of South
Tyrol. The Paris Agreement provided for equal rights for the
German-speaking and the Italian-speaking population, it granted the
region local and autonomous legislative and executive powers, and
Austria was accepted as the protecting power. In 1948 the autonomy
which had been promised to South Tirol was granted to the newly formed
region "Trentino-South Tirol" instead, which had an
Italian-speaking majority. This resulted in conflicts between Austria
and Italy over the German-speaking and Ladin-speaking minorities. In
1959 Austria took legal action against Italy before the United
Nations. The main issues of the conflict were solved in the South
Tyrol Package.
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