A new rearrangement of the borders. Arguments with YugoslaviaThe defeat of Italy in 1945 led to the borders being rearranged. In effect Yugoslavia , during the last few months of the war, started to claim its rights in this direction, too, seeing the Slovenian minority present in the Val Canale territory. These claims took on an official form thanks to the memorandum by Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister, Kardelj dated 18 September 1945, with which Yugoslavia requested Slavia Veneta, a part of the eastern Friulan plains, the valleys of the Torre and the whole Val Canale area . To counterattack these requests, on 20 August 1946 Italy submitted a memorandum in which, as regards the Tarvisio area, it undertook to guarantee the construction of the Predil railway line between Tarvisio and Gorizia, which had been planned many times. The conference ended on 10 February 1947 without modifying the borders, but for many years, relations with Yugoslavian state were almost nill.