This article deals with Yugoslav-Italian relations in the second half of the 1930s, seen through the prism of relations between Yugoslav Prime Minister and Minister of For-eign Affairs Milan Stojadinović (1935-1939) and Italian diplomacy and its representatives: Count Ciano, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Italian envoys in Belgrade and some other officials who had contact with the Yugoslav Prime Minister. The relations between Milan Stojadinović and Italian diplomacy, especially with Count Ciano, were closer than established before in historiography. The two had a friendly relationship, which evolved both through direct contact and through intermediaries. They frequently exchanged opinions, and even documents, on topics of mutual interest, but there were also direct requests to work in accordance with Italian interests, as well as the interests of Yugoslavia.
