E verteta mbi Programin prej 14 pikave te Presidentit amerikan W.Wilson
On 8 January 1918 President Woodrow Wilson delivered to a joint session of Congress his most famous wartime speech, proclaiming Fourteen Points to be the basis of the just and lasting peace that he and others ardently sought in order to end the Great War. After referring critically to the new Bolshevik regime in Russia opening peace talks at Brest-Litovsk with the as yet victorious Germans, the president listed the following fourteen points as the only reliable program for world peace:
1. "Open covenants of peace openly arrived at," whereby all diplomacy should henceforth proceed openly and candidly, with no more secret treaties or arrangements of the kind that liberal opinion blamed as causes of World War I.
2. Freedom of the seas in peace and in war, with the high seas to be open to regular commerce except as they might be closed via international agreements.
3. Removal of economic barriers, insofar as practical, to the equitable flow of trade and the access of all to markets.
4. Reduction of armaments to the lowest level consistent with the national security of all states.
5. Impartial adjustment of colonial claims and rivalries based upon the principle of the interests of both the colonial peoples involved and claimant powers.
6. Evacuation of Russia's national domain and cooperation to permit Russia to determine independently her own national policy and development, as "the acid test" of the good will of other powers toward Russia.
7. Evacuation and restoration of Belgium.
8. Evacuation of all French territory and
restoration by Germany of invaded portions, together with the correction of the wrong done France in 1871 in regard to the German seizure of Alsace-Lorraine.
9. Readjustment of Italy's frontiers along "clearly recognizable lines of nationality."
10. Autonomy for the various nationalities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
11. Evacuation and restoration of Rumania,Montenegro, and Serbia, with the latter assured of acces to the sea.(?????????Kastriot)
12. Autonomous development for the non turkish nationalities(dmth edhe Shqiptaret, Kastriot) of the Ottoman Empire and the opening of the Dardanelles to ships of all nations.
13. An independent Poland inhabited by indisputably Polish peoples and with assured access to the sea.
14. Formation of "a general association of nations . . . under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike."
On 8 January 1918 President Woodrow Wilson delivered to a joint session of Congress his most famous wartime speech, proclaiming Fourteen Points to be the basis of the just and lasting peace that he and others ardently sought in order to end the Great War. After referring critically to the new Bolshevik regime in Russia opening peace talks at Brest-Litovsk with the as yet victorious Germans, the president listed the following fourteen points as the only reliable program for world peace:
1. "Open covenants of peace openly arrived at," whereby all diplomacy should henceforth proceed openly and candidly, with no more secret treaties or arrangements of the kind that liberal opinion blamed as causes of World War I.
2. Freedom of the seas in peace and in war, with the high seas to be open to regular commerce except as they might be closed via international agreements.
3. Removal of economic barriers, insofar as practical, to the equitable flow of trade and the access of all to markets.
4. Reduction of armaments to the lowest level consistent with the national security of all states.
5. Impartial adjustment of colonial claims and rivalries based upon the principle of the interests of both the colonial peoples involved and claimant powers.
6. Evacuation of Russia's national domain and cooperation to permit Russia to determine independently her own national policy and development, as "the acid test" of the good will of other powers toward Russia.
7. Evacuation and restoration of Belgium.
8. Evacuation of all French territory and
restoration by Germany of invaded portions, together with the correction of the wrong done France in 1871 in regard to the German seizure of Alsace-Lorraine.
9. Readjustment of Italy's frontiers along "clearly recognizable lines of nationality."
10. Autonomy for the various nationalities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
11. Evacuation and restoration of Rumania,Montenegro, and Serbia, with the latter assured of acces to the sea.(?????????Kastriot)
12. Autonomous development for the non turkish nationalities(dmth edhe Shqiptaret, Kastriot) of the Ottoman Empire and the opening of the Dardanelles to ships of all nations.
13. An independent Poland inhabited by indisputably Polish peoples and with assured access to the sea.
14. Formation of "a general association of nations . . . under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike."