710.Consultation(2)/92a: Circular telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions in the American Republics Except Brazil

Following the procedure which was followed in connection with the Panama Meeting, the Governing Board of the Pan American Union has called a meeting for Saturday, June 29, in order to determine the agenda for the proposed Meeting of Foreign Ministers at Habana. For the information of the Foreign Minister of the Government to which you are accredited, there are transcribed below the suggestions which the Department is placing before the Governing Board for consideration:

[Here follows text of Proposed Agenda for the Second Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the American Republics, printed on page 202, including change indicated in footnote 36.]

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It will be noted that this suggested agenda follows the headings and the general form used at Panama. It is the Department’s view that the agenda should be broad in scope and general in terms so as to enable the Foreign Ministers to give consideration to the specific projects which may be presented at the meeting in connection with all the problems of common interest which confront them.

Although the exact date of the meeting remains to be determined on the basis of transportation arrangements being worked out, it is confidently believed, on the basis of the replies received by the Department to its circular of June 17, 10 a.m., that it should be possible to hold the opening session at Habana toward the middle or end of the week beginning July 15. The Secretary of State is planning to attend.

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