800.85/12–1344: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the United Kingdom, (Winant)
10614. ReDept’s 9505, November 11, 1944,34 it is understood that first three points have been incorporated into UMEB paper 1/1, formal procedure for accession, which has been approved at first session of UMEB.
ReEmbassy’s 11050, December 13, 1944, Department and War Shipping Administration concur in the following:
- 1.
- Signature—Acceding government will not sign shipping agreement but will send separate identical communications to US and UK Governments.
- 2.
- Date of Accession—Identical but separate replies of the same date sent by US and UK Governments to the acceding government will give effect to accession as of the date of the replies.
- 3.
- Protocol of Accession—The UMEB joint secretariat will record any accession in a Protocol of Accession, notice of which will be sent to each of the other contracting governments.
Following is a suggested form of Protocol of Accession.
“Protocol of Accession
Whereas the Government of blank by its separate but identical letters of blank date to the Governments of the United States and United Kingdom has communicated its desire to accede to the Agreement on Principles and to become a contracting party thereto,
And Whereas the Governments of the United States and United Kingdom by their separate but identical communications of blank date to the Government of blank acknowledged receipt of the latter’s respective communications now therefore in accordance with the procedure authorized at the first meeting of the United Maritime Executive Board, it is attested and confirmed by this Protocol of Accession that the accession of the Government of blank to the agreement aforesaid became effective on and from month day year. Done in blank this blank day of blank nineteen forty blank.”
It is also recommended that a form of communication, to be informally suggested to the Governments requesting accession, be prepared and agreed upon by the United States and United Kingdom Governments, and similarly a form of reply.
- Not printed.↩