 It declared that the nations and nationalities should have equal rights (Article 245).It further stated that "… each nationality has the sovereign right freely to use its own language and script, to foster its own culture, to set up organizations for this purpose, and to enjoy other constitutionally guaranteed rights…" (Article 274)

There is not yet complete agreement amongst historians about the causes and the events triggering the Istrian exodus.According to the historian Pertti Ahonen