Council of Foreign Ministers Files: Lot M–88: CFM London Documents
Proposals by the Australian Minister for External Affairs (Evatt) to the Council of Foreign Ministers
C.F.M.(45) 32
London, 20 September,
1945.
Italian Peace Treaty
city and port of trieste
The following are the proposals, in the form of draft headings for inclusion in the treaty of peace with Italy, concerning the disposition of the City and Port of Trieste, which were referred to by Dr. H. V. Evatt in his statement to the tenth meeting of the Council,* held on 18th September, 1945:— [Page 285]
- (1)
- Italy to renounce in favour of the United Nations her Sovereignty over the City and Port of Trieste and immediately adjoining territory.
- (2)
- Trieste to be neutralised and demilitarised.
- (3)
- Trieste to be made administratively independent according to a constitution which will accord a substantially equal share in the local administration to Italian and Yugoslav residents, the constitution to be drawn up by or on behalf of the United Nations after consultation with representatives of Italian and Yugoslavian interests.
- (4)
- A convention to be drawn up between Italy and Yugoslavia, Central European Countries and the autonomous City of Trieste, providing for the institution of a free port at Trieste and the facilitation of rail and other communications to and from Trieste for the purpose of international trading. Such convention to be embodied in the treaties of Peace.
- (5)
- The constitution of the independent City to be placed under the guarantee of the United Nations which will provide appropriate means of general supervision or specific control over the local administration and of associating the representatives of other countries with such administration.
- (6)
- The full protection of civil and religious liberties shall be guaranteed in the convention and made enforceable in the Courts of Justice.
- (7)
- Arrangements regarding retention or change of residence or nationality and the right of disposal or retention of property.
- C.F.M.(P) (45) 10th Meeting, Minute 1. [Footnote in the original.]↩