Abstract
The international position of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in the post-war period was extremely difficult and complex. This was primarily due to the issues related to the dynamics and the very concept of unification of South Slavs, but also because of the situation on the European continent as a whole, which once again faced the redrawing of borders as a consequence of the disappearance of great empires – the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy, and the German Empire – and the emergence of new states. In such a turbulent period, political leaders and diplomats of the common state of Southern Slavs, which was founded on December 1, 1918, were expected to use the Paris Peace Conference to search for new diplomatic alliances, as well as to preserve the traditional ones, the alliance with France in particular. The representatives of the Kingdom had to strike a balance between abiding by the wishes and demands of the great powers and defending national interests, with the primary goal being to preserve the territories that the Kingdom of Serbia, as a victor of the Great War, liberated and united.
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