奥西莫条约

意大利国内批评

意大利政府弃用传统外交渠道、秘密进行谈判和签署条约的做法惹来国内严厉批评。民族主义者拒绝放弃伊斯特里亚半岛，这是由于伊斯特里亚半岛位处古意大利以拉沙河为界线的东部边境，属于威尼斯与伊斯特里亚半岛地区（Venetia et Histria）的一部分。此外，伊斯特里亚半岛在第一次世界大战至第二次世界大战结束期间25年（1919-1943）曾受意大利管辖，伊斯特里亚半岛西岸早有大量意大利人口。

意大利有人呼吁根据《意大利刑法典》第241条以叛国罪名起诉当时的总理和外交部长，刑法规定任何人若认定犯有协助及教唆外国势力在国家领土行使主权将被判以无期徒刑。此外，《奥西莫条约》不保证保护南斯拉夫区的少数意大利人和意大利区的少数斯洛文尼亚人，其后签订的单独协议实施保护少数群体的措施。

斯洛文尼亚和克罗地亚的独立

斯洛文尼亚在1991年宣布独立，主权在1992年获国际公认。虽然《奥西莫条约》的适用性受到质疑，斯洛文尼亚发表承认该条约的声明，作为加入欧盟谈判的先决条件。由于克罗地亚没有质疑条约的权力或与意大利区接壤，因此意大利没有坚持要求克罗地亚政府发表类似斯洛文尼亚的声明。

The Treaty of Osimo was signed on 10 November 1975 by Italy and Yugoslavia in Osimo, Italy, to definitively divide the Free Territory of Trieste between the two states: the port city of Trieste with a narrow coastal strip to the north-west (Zone A) was given to Italy; a portion of the north-western part of the Istrian peninsula (Zone B) was given to Yugoslavia.

The full name of the treaty is Treaty on the delimitation of the frontier for the part not indicated as such in the Peace Treaty of 10 February 1947. The treaty was written in French and became effective on 11 October 1977. For the Italian government, the treaty was signed by Mariano Rumor, Minister for Foreign Affairs. For Yugoslavia, the treaty was signed by Miloš Minić, the Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs.

Criticism in Italy

The Italian government was criticized harshly for signing the treaty, particularly for the secretive way in which negotiations were carried out, skipping the traditional diplomatic channels. Italian nationalists rejected the idea of giving up Istria since it had been an ancient "Italian" region together with the Venetian region (Venetia et Histria). Following the Treaty of London, Istria had belonged to Italy for the 25 years, 1919–1943, between World War I and the end of World War II, and the west coast of Istria had long had a sizeable Italian-minority population.

Some called for the prosecution of the then Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the crime of treason, as stated in Article 241 of the Italian Criminal Code, which mandates a life sentence for anybody found guilty of aiding and abetting a foreign power to exert its sovereignty on the national territory. The treaty did not guarantee the protection of the Italian minority in the Yugoslav zone or for the Slovenian minority in the Italian zone. The question of the protection of minorities was already enshrined in the European Convention of Human Rights which has its own powerful Court, nonetheless linguistic and office-holding qualification protections were enshrined in later signing of protocols.

Slovenian and Croatian independence

Slovenia declared its independence in 1991 and was recognized internationally in 1992. Italy quickly recognised Slovenian independence and accepted the accession of the new Slovenia to treaties concluded with Yugoslavia. The treaty's applicability was now in question, but Slovenia then released a declaration on 31 July 1992 saying that it would recognize the treaty.

Both Italy and Croatia have opposed any changes to the treaty. Slovenia claimed that all debts owing to Italy for property transferred to Yugoslav sovereignty after 1947 had now been paid. By 1993, however, 35,000 Italians still claimed that money was owed to them.

In 1994, the Italian government, led by Silvio Berlusconi, demanded that additional compensation be paid, or efforts to integrate Slovenia into Western Europe would be halted. To that effect, it blocked talks for Slovenia's accession to the European Union until March 1995, when the new government, under Lamberto Dini, retracted the Italian demand. A cooperative pact was signed, led by Spain, with the effect of allowing Italian nationals who had resided in Slovenia for three years to purchase property there for up to four years after the pact was signed. It came into force during Slovenia's attempts to join the EU.

No similar declaration was made by the Croatia government, but the Croatian Parliament on 25 June 1991 accepted the borders of Croatia as part of Yugoslavia. However, Italy did not insist on a declaration from Croatia, and the treaty was never questioned by Croatia, which considers it to be valid.