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The Corfu incident (Greek: κατάληψη της Κέρκυρας, romanized: Katalipsi tis Kerkyras, Italian: crisi di Corfù) was a 1923 diplomatic and military crisis between Greece and Italy. It was triggered when Enrico Tellini , an Italian general heading a commission to resolve a border dispute between Albania and Greece, was murdered ...
The British Minister of Pensions at the time of the incident awarded full military pensions to the disabled and to the widows of the dead. [21] The third and final incident occurred on 12–13 November 1946 when the Royal Navy carried out an additional mine sweeping operation in the Corfu channel, codenamed "Operation Retail".
On 31 August 1923 Italian troops occupied Corfu in the Corfu incident. [10] [11] Reginald Leeper, the British ambassador at Athens in 1945, in a letter to the British Foreign Secretary in April 1945 mentioned that the Greeks that lived in Albania blame Cham Albanians for the murder of Tellini. [12]
It was formed to enforce peace treaties and to mediate various territorial disputes among European states. [2] Some of the disputed regions handled by the Conference included Cieszyn Silesia (between Poland and Czechoslovakia), the Vilnius Region (between Poland and Lithuania), the Klaipėda Region (between Germany and Lithuania) and the Corfu Incident (between Italy and Greece).
The Corfu Channel case (French: Affaire du Détroit de Corfou) was the first public international law case heard before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) between 1947 and 1949, concerning state responsibility for damages at sea, as well as the doctrine of innocent passage.
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The Council created a sub-committee to investigate the Corfu Channel incident and the dispute between Albania and the United Kingdom. Resolution 19 passed with eight votes to none. Poland, the Soviet Union, and Syria abstained. [1]
The Corfu Channel Incident refers to three separate incidents involving Royal Navy ships in the Straits of Corfu which took place in 1946, and it is considered an early episode of the Cold War. [3] [4] [5] During the first incident, Royal Navy ships came under fire from Albanian fortifications. [4]