Editing Free Territory of Trieste (section)

===Change in the Administration===
On 5 October 1954, the London Memorandum was signed by ministers of the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, and Yugoslavia. The memorandum did not change the de jure status of the Free Territory of Trieste,<ref name="states">[https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/94153 Coloni, M., & Clegg, P. (2022). Reflections on the status of the Free Territory of Trieste. Small States & Territories, 5(1), 179-194.]</ref> and the civilian administration was in contrast with Annex VII Art. 1 of the 1947 Peace Treaty with Italy.  

After the withdrawal of the Allied military troops by the 24th October 1954, Zone A, including Trieste, was militarily invaded by Italy on the 25th October 1954, and the following day the Italian General de Renzi declared full control over the area at 12:00, initiating the occupation currently ongoing. Zone B remained under Yugoslavian control. In addition, Yugoslavia took control of villages of Zone A in the municipalities of [[Muggia]] and [[San Dorligo della Valle]], such as [[Plavje]], [[Spodnje Škofije]], [[Elerji]], [[Hrvatini]], [[Kolomban]], [[Cerej]], [[Premančan]], [[Barizoni]], and [[Socerb]] (with [[Socerb Castle|its castle]]), according to the demarcation line defined by Annex I.

The demarcation line between the two Zones (that was not a frontier) and territorial claims from both Italy and Yugoslavia continued. These were finally put to rest with the November 1975 signing of the bilateral [[Treaty of Osimo]] between Italy and Yugoslavia. However, this bilateral agreement did not change the legal status of the Free Territory of Trieste that still exists ''de&nbsp;jure'', and on which International Humanitarian Law applies, as stated in the 17th UN Minority Forum (Geneva, 2024), in which Trieste’s representants requested the intervention of the United Nations to end the occupation and to establish a Commission for the application of the existing international law.<ref name="sistory1">[http://sistory.si/publikacije/prenos/?target=pdf&urn=SISTORY:ID:5068#page=153 Tržaški Slovenci in vprašanje razdelitve Svobodnega tržaškega ozemlja, pages 411–422]</ref>