Greek-Bulgarian Convention on Mutual Settlements (1919). After the signing of the Peace Accord (27. Xi 1919) in Senna (France), the next day (28. Xi) Bulgaria and Greece in Paris signed a separate convention on mutual voluntary exchange of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities from both countries. With the Convention, Bulgaria gave its nationals (members of the Greek ethnic minority) the right to free eviction in Greece, and Greece’s right to eviction in Bulgaria of citizens members of the Bulgarian ethnic minority. Parties have committed themselves not to limit emigration. All existing laws and other regulations that prevented or in any way were limited by emigration were put out of force and did not have any legal effect. The immigrants immigrated, in accordance with the signed Convention, were guaranteed inviolability of the material rights they had at the time of emigration. Emigration under the Convention predicted to last 2 years. Emigrating the man withdrew mandatory emigration of the family – the woman and children under the age of 18. For the implementation of emigration with the Convention, the establishment of a mixed commission appointed by the Council of the Society of Peoples within three months of the day of its entry into force was envisaged. The Commission had the jurisdiction to carry out liquidation of immovations of immigrants. The liquidated immovable properties of the emigrants remained owned by the Government on whose state territory were located. The liquidation of the immigrants of immigrants immigrated before the signing of the Convention was also liquidation. The majority Macedonian people in Aegean part of Macedonia was considered as a Bulgarian minority, and was sub-logging on the eviction regime. Following the signing of the Convention, Greece took a system of measures for emigration to which most of the Macedonian people, colonizing Greeks to amend the demographic composition of the population. Only with the application of the Convention, there were roughly 86,500 Macedonians in Bulgaria. Lit.: Macedonia in international agreements, Skopje, 2000; Stoyan Acisovski and Irena attitudes-Remeders, minorities in the Balkans (ⅹⅹ century), Skopje, 2004. M. Min.
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