Editing Foreign relations of Croatia (section)

===Socialist Republic of Croatia within Yugoslavia===
{{see also|Foreign relations of Yugoslavia}}
[[File:Palais Hoyos Ansicht 2.jpg|thumb|Embassy of Croatia in Austria, 2015]]
While each constitution of Yugoslavia defined foreign affairs as a federal level issue, over the years Yugoslav constituent republics played increasingly prominent role in either defining this policy or pursuing their own initiatives. Number of diplomats from Croatia gained significant experience in the service to the prominent [[Cold War]] era Yugoslav diplomacy.<ref name="Jakovina">{{cite book |editor1=Neven Budak  |editor2=Vjeran Katunarić |author=[[Tvrtko Jakovina]] |chapter=HRVATSKA VANJSKA POLITIKA: Što smo bili, što jesmo, što želimo i što možemo biti? |title=Hrvatski nacionalni identitet u globalizirajućem svijetu |pages=83–101 |publisher=[[Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb]] |isbn=978-953-270-036-7 |date=2010}}</ref>

In June 1943 [[Vladimir Velebit]] became the point of contact for foreign military missions in their dealings with the [[Yugoslav Partisans]]. [[Ivan Šubašić]] (1944–1945), [[Josip Smodlaka]] ([[National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia|NKOJ]]: 1943–1945), [[Josip Vrhovec]] (1978–1982) and [[Budimir Lončar]] (1987–1991) led the federal level [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Yugoslavia)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] while numerous Croatian diplomats served in Yugoslav embassies or multilateral organizations. In 1956 [[Brijuni]] archipelago in [[People's Republic of Croatia]] hosted the [[Brioni Meeting]], one of the major early initiatives leading to the establishment of the [[Non-Aligned Movement]].<ref name="BBC">{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/serbian/lat/srbija-53976743 |title="Sve je počelo u Beogradu". Šta je danas sa Pokretom nesvrstanih |author=Jovana Georgievski |publisher=[[BBC]] |language=sr |date=1 September 2020 |access-date=23 May 2023}}</ref><ref name="Glas Istre">{{Cite web |url=https://www.glasistre.hr/istra/na-danasnji-dan-prije-64-godine-na-brijunima-su-tito-nehru-i-naser-osnovali-pokret-nesvrstanih-655717 |title=NA DANAŠNJI DAN Prije 64 godine na Brijunima su Tito, Nehru i Naser osnovali pokret nesvrstanih |author=Milan Pavlović |publisher=[[Glas Istre]] |language=hr |date=19 July 2020 |access-date=23 May 2023}}</ref> Between 1960 and 1967 Vladimir Velebit was executive secretary of the [[United Nations Economic Commission for Europe]]. During the [[Croatian Spring]] Croatian economist Hrvoje Šošić argued for the separate admission of the [[Socialist Republic of Croatia]] into the [[United Nations]] similar to the membership of [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian]] and [[Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic]] which led to his imprisonment.<ref name="Papuga">{{cite thesis |last=Papuga |first=Darijan |date=2017 |title=Montirani sudski procesi nakon sloma Hrvatskog proljeća |type=Master's thesis |publisher=[[University of Zagreb]], Department of Croatian Studies |url=https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:111:449202 |access-date= 23 May 2023}}</ref> In 1978, Croatia together with [[SR Slovenia]] joined the newly established [[The Alps-Adriatic Working Group|Alps-Adriatic Working Group]]. The [[breakup of Yugoslavia]] led to mass transfers of experts from federal institutions enabling post-Yugoslav states to establish their own diplomatic bodies primarily by employing former Yugoslav cadres.<ref name="Čačija">{{cite thesis |last=Čačija |first=Stipe |date=2022 |title=Doprinos bivših jugoslavenskih diplomata prijelaznika uspostavi i radu novostvorene diplomacije Republike Hrvatske |type=Doctor of Philosophy |publisher=[[University of Zadar]] |url=https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:162:348375 |access-date= 23 May 2023}}</ref> The 2001 [[Agreement on Succession Issues of the Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] formally assigned to Croatia a portion of the diplomatic and consular properties of the previous federation.<ref name="Stahn">{{cite journal |last=Stahn |first=Carsten |date=2002 |title=The Agreement on Succession Issues of the Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2693933 |journal=[[The American Journal of International Law]] |volume=96 |issue=2 |pages=379–397 |doi=10.2307/2693933 |jstor=2693933 |s2cid=144987205 }}</ref>