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The Court rendered a decision under which Albania was to pay £844,000 to the United Kingdom. [6] [9] This is equivalent to £37.7 million in 2015 terms. [10] Because of the incidents, Britain in 1946 broke off talks with Albania aimed at establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries. Diplomatic relations were only restored in 1991.
On 8 May 1992, Britain and Albania came to an agreement over the Corfu Channel case, announcing that "Both sides expressed their regret at the Corfu Channel Incident of 22 October 1946" [7] [8] and Albania agreed to pay US$2,000,000 in reparations.
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.
A major incident between Albania and Britain erupted in 1946 after Tirana claimed jurisdiction over the channel between the Albanian mainland and the Greek island of Corfu. Britain challenged Albania by sailing four destroyers into the channel. Two of the ships struck mines on 22 October 1946, and 44 crew members died.
The assembly convened in January 1946, annulled the monarchy, and transformed Albania into a "people's republic." The new leaders inherited an Albania plagued by many evils: widespread poverty, overwhelming illiteracy, gjakmarrje ("blood feuds"), epidemics of disease and blatant subjugation of women.
This series of incidents led to the Corfu Channel Case, where the United Kingdom brought a case against the People's Republic of Albania to the International Court of Justice. [6] Because of the incidents, Britain, in 1946, broke off talks with Albania aimed at establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries. Diplomatic relations ...
Britain and the United States begin inserting unsuccessful anticommunist Albanian guerrilla units into Albania. July: A new constitution was approved by the People's Assembly, under which Hoxha became minister of defense and foreign minister. 1951: February: Albania and the Soviet Union signed an agreement on mutual economic assistance. 1954: July
January 11 - The People's Republic of Albania was proclaimed at noon (1100 GMT), with Communist leader Enver Hoxha as the nation's Prime Minister.Two months later, a new constitution proclaimed Hoxha's Albanian Workers Party to be the sole force, and Marxism–Leninism as the ideology, of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania.