By Alessandro Gombač Abstract At the height of the Cold War, the Free Territory of Trieste (FTT) — established by the 1947 Peace Treaty — was progressively emptied of meaning and eventually abandoned. Not due to technical limits or diplomatic obstacles, but because of a deliberate political choice by the United States, as revealed by …

“Trieste is for Austria what Königsberg is for Prussia” — Friedrich Engels, 1887 Abstract: In May 2025, Trieste is no longer just a geopolitical question—it is a crossroads of global interests, European obligations, and local betrayals. This article traces the hidden legal status of the Free Port of Trieste, the silence of Italian authorities, and …

Everyone claims to defend international law — until it becomes inconvenient. The 1947 Peace Treaty, which established the Free Territory of Trieste and its international Free Port, is not forgotten. It has been deliberately ignored. This article is not a call for nostalgia. It’s a warning: silence is no substitute for legality. Alessandro Gombač While …

by Alessandro Gombač Trieste is not a city like any other—nor is it Italy’s to claim. Born of treaties and empire, commerce and contradiction, it stands at the crossroads of East and West, law and silence. This article exposes the legal and geopolitical lie that keeps Trieste in limbo. “We felt like foreigners in a …

TRIEST NGO present on Friday 01/12/2023 at the 16th Minorities Forum of the OHCHR in Geneva, with a delegation made up of Franco Zonta, Francesca Porcu and Adam Bark as speakers. This year the intervention of TRIEST NGO at the 16th Minorities Forum of the OHCHR in Geneva was aimed at the States interested in …

The Free Port of Trieste, framed by the States that defeated Nazi-Fascist Italy in 1945 as a natural outlet on the Mediterranean for the countries of central Europe and their commercial traffic to and from all over the world, in recent days, due to a forced military alliance to which our port should be extraneous, …

“L’Unione Europea non ha *indicato la via* agli italiani, l’Unione Europea ha ricordato ai senatori italiani che non sono titolati ad interporsi con Bruxelles.”  In questi giorni abbiamo letto molte reazioni provenienti da più fronti alla risposta della Commissione Europea in merito alla richiesta di riconoscimento dell’extradoganilità del Porto di Trieste. A noi sarebbe piaciuto …

In merito alle cosiddette petizioni on-line sulla solita piattaforma americana “change . org” ed in particolare quella ideata da Vito Potenza poi seguita dal rilancio da parte di Stefano Puzzer, richiedente “l’invio dei caschi blu a Trieste su consiglio da un suo amico che si intende di legge internazionale” comunichiamo quanto segue: 1 – Le …

Lo status del Porto Franco di Trieste è per il beneficio non solo di tutti i firmatari del Trattato di Pace, ma per tutti gli Stati dell’Europa centrale.” Prof. Grant & Verdirame – 2014 Mentre per l’arrivo della Hamburger Hafen und Logistik Ag (Hhla) sulla nuova piattaforma logistica si è saputo tutto dai media, altrettanta …

During the last months, many colleagues have showed a growing interest on the so-called Question of Trieste and its Free Port. The topic has always been quite interesting at my eyes and it has come back on the news basically because the age of assistentialism has definitely terminated and the bad consequences are clearly in …

INTERMODAL ASIA 2019, One Belt One Road Forum TRIESTE, TERRITORY AND FREE PORT TERMINUS OF THE SILK ROAD: THE UNRESOLVED QUESTION AT THE DOOR OF THE CENTRAL EUROPE Shanghai, 23 May 2019 Below the speech of TRIEST NGO TRIEST is a non-governmental organization founded in April 2013 in London. It is a non-profit organization, financed …

As it was widely predicted, a signal from an International source on the matter of Trieste has arrived in January 2019 (here the article). To ignite the shot is in all probability China, from a reassuring and well-known technical site dedicated to the world’s ports in Singapore, Splash247.com. It does so with the article “Trieste: …

PhD Prof. Alfred de Zayas, independent expert of the United Nations, with mandate for “the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order“, already known for his contribute in favour of the Free Territory of Trieste, i.e. the exclusive invitation of TRIEST NGO to two side events (in September 2017 and March 2018) at the …

The international order requires Rechtssicherheit (legal certainty), which entails strict respect of treaties and uniform application of international norms. In the specific case of Triest, the reactivation of the free port would be a win win proposition for all concerned and would energize trade in Europe and beyond.” Alfred de Zayas,  9 April 2018   …

This is the extended version of our short speech on December 1, 2017 at the Tenth session of the Forum on Minority Issues organised by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights/Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, the theme of which was “Minority youth: towards diverse and inclusive societies”. This report has been submitted to OHCHR …

Full speech from Alfred De Zayas, UN Expert with a High Commissioner of Human Rights mandate for “an equitable and democratic International order“, at the first demonstration ever for the Free Territory of Trieste in Geneva, Switzerland, organised by TRIEST NGO at Place des Nations (UN), on September 15 2017. This speech touches many fundamental themes, …

Despite the various proof we brought about the full acknowledgement of the Free Territory of Trieste (FTT), the “Legal Italian official doctrine” claims that the FTT was never a real State, and therefore – according to them – any claim of sovereignty over it has no basis today. But now, after so much proof has …

Letter sent by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to the Security Council, in which the territories under UN trusteeship are analysed. Besides the confirmation, once more, of the merely Italian and [ex] Yugoslavian civil administration, The Free Territory of Trieste is not given an end date, but rather its merely change of civil administration, …