on february 18, 1983 yugoslavia and italy signed a treaty in rome. yugoslavia agreed to pay us$110 million for the compensation of the exiles' property which was confiscated after the war in the zone b of free territory of trieste. up to its breakup in 1991, yugoslavia had paid us$18 million. slovenia and croatia, two yugoslav successors, agreed to share the remainder of this debt. slovenia assumed 62% and croatia the remaining 38%. italy did not want to reveal the bank account number so in 1994 slovenia opened a fiduciary account at dresdner bank in luxembourg, informed italy about it and started paying its us$55,976,930 share. the last payment was due in january 2002. until today, the solution of the matter between croatia and italy has been delayed. none of the refugees from the free territory of trieste saw a single penny so far.