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Yugoslavia Warship Visits
Warships from the Soviet Union and the United States made
occasional port calls in Yugoslavia, but such visits sometimes
aroused controversy. After an incident involving the United
States aircraft carrier Saratoga in 1987, Yugoslavia
amended its federal law to prohibit foreign warships using
nuclear power or carrying nuclear weapons from entering its
territorial waters. The revised law also placed new restrictions
on foreign port calls, limiting foreign countries to four formal
visits of ten days or less each year. No more than three combat
and two auxiliary ships of the same nation were allowed to enter
Yugoslav waters during a six-month period. Maximum displacements
for visiting ships were also set at 10,000 tons for combatants
and 4,000 tons for submarines and auxiliary vessels. The
carefully worded new law aimed visitation limits at the
Mediterranean Squadron of the Soviet Navy, displacement limits at
the United States Navy's Sixth Fleet.
Data as of December 1990
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