ABSTRACT
At the consultations that led to the Conference of Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1973, the Mediterranean did appear on the agenda, but to no avail. Yugoslavia and Malta, backed by Austria, stressed vigorously the interdependence between European security · and conflict in the Middle East. They warned that without security in the Mediterranean, there can be no security in Europe. This concern is shared, in varying degrees, by Mediterranean states like France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and Cyprus. Concern has been voiced as well by Algeria and Tunisia - whose diplomats went to Helsinki to give visible support to Yugoslavia's position. There was, however, no consensus on the matter among Mediterranean countries and the majority of participating states, including the United States and the Soviet Union, decided against including the Mediterranean as a subject for negotiations.
