While their earlier efforts were fueled with the intention of national liberation, during the First Balkan War regional balance of power played more prominent role in decision making so that Albanian territories were divided by its neighbors.

At the same time the Albanian state started to develop, and due to the concern of the Great Powers over the Russian expansion into the Mediterranean the independent Principality of Albania was created along the coast.

The border remained unclear all through World War I (when the Serbian Albanian Golgotha took place) and in early years after the establishment of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (which was created after Serbia united with Montenegro, Banat, Bačka and Baranja and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs).

Subsequent to 1948 Yugoslavia developed a comparatively open Titoist system economically linked to Western Europe and diplomatically active with non-bloc countries.

[2] The Conference of Ambassadors decided to deal with the issue of Albanian-Yugoslav border and it published them soon after the creation of Republic of Mirdita yet the United Kingdom insisted on slight adaptations in the region of Debar, Prizren and Kastrati in the interest of Yugoslavia.

In July 1946, Yugoslavia and Albania signed the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation followed by a series of technical and economic agreements aimed at integration of the Albanian and Yugoslav economies.