[2] During the final stage of the World War II some 30,000 Yugoslav refugees from the German occupied Dalmatia found shelter in the Egyptian desert in the camp El Shatt.

[4] The Embassy of Yugoslavia established contact with one female communist activist and supported her in translation of the 1946 Yugoslav Constitution into Arabic publishing it in 10,000 copies.

[4] In April 1947 Egyptian Government requested Yugoslav ambassador to leave the country, but at the same time tried to control anti-Yugoslav media campaign particularly visible in the Sawadi newspaper all up until 1948.

[1] This initially had a negative effect on already negligible relations as the Yugoslav representative in Cairo defected to the pro-Soviet side end emigrated to Moscow with significant part of the archive.

[1] After the Government of Yugoslavia concluded that the new regime in Cairo is progressive in its orientation and committed to anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism in the Arab World, Belgrade decided to develop its relations with Egypt as a corner stone of its Eastern Mediterranean policy, in part motivated by intention to prevent any neo-Ottomanist moves of Turkey whose position was strengthened by the 1953 Balkan Pact with Greece and Yugoslavia.

[1] In 1953 Aleš Bebler, at the time Yugoslav under-secretary for foreign affairs, met with Mahmoud Fawzi after which he informed Koča Popović that there are good prospects for future relations.

[1] Later that year President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito gave an interview to the Al Gomhuria newspaper which gained significant interest in Egypt.

[1] Instructed by the Foreign Office, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Yugoslavia Ivo Mallet protested against strong pro-Egyptian attitude in Yugoslav media during the Suez Canal quarrels in late 1953.

[7] Yugoslav authorities preferred its Muslim citizens to receive higher religious education in Egypt or Algeria rather than Saudi Arabia, yet popularity of Cairo was decreasing due to perception of highly demanding study program leading some to University of Baghdad.

[10] Yugoslavia condemned Israel as the aggressor and requested from the United Nations to stop the aggression and decided to cancel its relations with Tel Aviv on 13 June 1967.

[11] The Cairo Fine Arts Gallery hosted the highly popular Contemporary Yugoslav Painting exhibition during the 2nd Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in the city in 1964.