128. Editorial Note
On August 31, 1965, the “Act of Dominican Reconciliation” was signed by Francisco Caamaño Deno, Jottin Cury, Hector Aristy, Salvador Jorge Blanco, S. Antonio Guzman, and Anibal Campagna for the “Constitutionalist Government,” Hector Garcia Godoy for the Provisional Government, and the three members of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Tenth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs: Ilmar Marinho (Brazil), Ramon de Clairmont (El Salvador), and Elsworth Bunker (United States), and accepted by Antonio Imbert Barrera [Page 311] for the “Government of National Reconstruction.” By signing this Act, the parties agreed to “accept the Constitutionalist Government led by Hector Garcia Godoy as the sole and sovereign government of the Dominican Republic.” The parties also agreed to accept: the Institutional Act resulting from this agreement as the constitutional instrument under which the Provisional Government would exercise its functions; a general amnesty provided for in Article 11 of the Institutional Act; an immediate withdrawal of contending forces from their zones of defense; the Provisional Governmentʼs responsibility for maintenance of public order; the establishment of special centers to collect arms held by civilians; the return of the Armed Forces under the Provisional Presidentʼs control without reprisal or discrimination for past actions in the Dominican conflict; and a negotiation with the Tenth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs to decide the withdrawal date and form of the Inter-American Peace Force. For text, see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1965, pages 999–1001.