The
Balkan Pact was a
treaty signed by
Greece,
Turkey,
Romania and
Yugoslavia—the
Balkan Entente—on February 9, 1934 in
Athens, aimed at maintaining the geopolitical status quo in the region following
World War I. The signatories agreed to suspend all disputed territorial
claims against each other and their immediate neighbors following the aftermath of the war and a rise in various regional
ethnic minority tensions. Other nations in the region that had been involved in related
diplomacy refused to sign the
document, including
Italy,
Albania,
Bulgaria,
Hungary, and the
Soviet Union. Nonsignatories were mostly those governments with territorial expansion in mind. The pact became effective on the day it was signed. It was registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on October 1, 1934.