page_title: Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia
section_title: Second session of the AVNOJ
hierarchical_section_title: Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia / Second session of the AVNOJ
caption_attribution_description: Beschluss der zweiten Sitzung des antifaschistischen Rates der Volksbefreiung Jugoslawiens über die Errichtung Jugoslawiens nach dem föderativen Prinzip. Decision of the II Session of AVNOJ on federalization of Yugoslavia.
context_page_description: The Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia, known more commonly by its Yugoslav abbreviation AVNOJ, was the political umbrella organization for the national liberation councils of the Yugoslav resistance against the Axis occupation during World War II. It eventually became the Yugoslav provisional wartime deliberative body. It was established on November 26, 1942, to administer territories under the control of the Partisans.
context_section_description: "We are convinced that our Allies will not misunderstand this historic step taken by our people, but rather that they will do everything to give our people their moral and material help and backing, and this through the representatives elected by the people themselves in their own country."
  — Josip Broz Tito
  In its second conference in the Bosnian town of Jajce, from November 29 to November 30, 1943, Tito declared the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia to be the superior executive authority in the country. The decisions and the resolutions of the second AVNOJ conference were:
  to create a federal Yugoslavia, based on the right of self-determination of nations, in which the southern Slavic peoples (Serbs, Croats, Macedonians, Muslims, Slovenes, and Montenegrins) who would live in six constituent republics with equal rights;
  to stress that even during the War of National Liberation there had been established anti-fascist councils of the national liberation of Yugoslav lands for Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sandžak, Macedonia, and Montenegro and the Bay of Kotor as the organisations of the people's administration of the land;
  to elect the National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia (Nacionalni komitet oslobođenja Jugoslavije/Национални комитет ослобођен ја Југославије; NKOJ/НКОЈ), based in Jajce, to act as the temporary government;
  to name Tito, Marshal of Yugoslavia and Prime Minister;
  to revoke the Yugoslavian government-in-exile; and
  to deny King Petar II Karađorđević’s return to the country, until a popular referendum had been held on the status of the monarchy.
  To counter decisions of AVNOJ to organize Yugoslavia as federative republic, Draža Mihailović organized a Saint Sava Congress participated by representatives of former liberal political parties from Serbia, Montenegro and Slovenia together with some pro-Yugoslav politicioans from Croatia, based on the idea of Yugoslavia as tripartite constitutional monarchy headed by Serb souvereign.
  In December 1943, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin decided to support the Partisans. The United Kingdom joined a month later, and stopped supplying the Chetniks. The first Soviet mission arrived at Partisan headquarters, shortly thereafter. The United States kept a military mission with Mihajlović to encourage continued Chetnik aid for downed American fliers.
  In May 1944, German airborne forces attacked Tito's headquarters in Drvar, nearly capturing him. Tito fled to Italy, and established a new headquarters on the Adriatic island of Vis. After throwing its full support to the Partisans, Britain worked to reconcile Tito and Petar. At Britain's urging, Petar agreed to remain outside Yugoslavia, and in September, summoned all Yugoslavs to back the Partisans.
caption: AVNOJ Proclamation of what will later become SFRJ