740.00119 Council/11–2345: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union ( Harriman )
2382. Please deliver following message immediately to Molotov.
“As you will recall it was decided at the Crimea Conference that the Foreign Secretaries of the Three Powers represented there would hold regular consultations, probably meeting every three or four months.22 That was in February.
In May the Foreign Secretaries were able to consult together when the three of them were at San Francisco for the United Nations Conference. In July similar consultations took place at Berlin, when the heads of the three governments met there, and in September at London during the Conference of the Foreign Ministers.
At Berlin it was agreed that the establishment of the Council of Foreign Ministers should be without prejudice to the Agreement of the Crimea Conference that there should be periodical consultation between Foreign Secretaries of the Three Powers.23
It will soon be three months since we met in London on September 11. Therefore I suggest that the next meeting be held on Tuesday, December 11.
Under the Crimea Agreement in fixing the place of meetings for the Three Foreign Secretaries, we are to rotate between the three countries. As the Foreign Secretaries have met at San Francisco and at London, I suggest that the December meeting be held in Moscow. If this is agreeable to you and the date is satisfactory I will communicate with Mr. Bevin and ascertain his views.”
- See section VIII of the Report of the Crimea Conference, February 11, 1945, Foreign Relations, The Conferences at Malta and Yalta, 1945, p. 974.↩
- See section II of the Report on the Tripartite Conference of Berlin, August 2, 1945, Foreign Relations, The Conference of Berlin (The Potsdam Conference), 1945, vol. ii, p. 1500.↩