C.F.M. Files: Lot M–88: Box 2063: CFM Records of Decision
Record of Decisions, Council of Foreign Ministers, Second Session, Twenty-Fourth Meeting, Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, June 24, 1946, 11:30 a.m.
C.F.M. (46) 24th Meeting, 24 June, 1946.
Present
| U.K. | ||
| Mr. Bevin (Chairman) | ||
| Mr. Jebb | ||
| Mr. Harvey | ||
| Mr. Duff Cooper | ||
| France | U.S.S.R. | |
| M. Bidault | M. Molotov | |
| M. Couve de Murville | M. Vyshinsky | |
| Gen. Catroux | M. Gousev | |
| M. Henri Bonnet | ||
| M. Alphand | ||
| U.S.A. | ||
| Mr. Byrnes | ||
| Mr. Connally | ||
| Mr. Vandenberg | ||
| Mr. Dunn | ||
| Mr. Bohlen |
I. Report by the Deputies
The Ministers heard a Report on the work of the Deputies, submitted by the outgoing Chairman.
The Council agreed to restrict the Hydro-electric Experts’ terms of reference for the Mont Cenis district to a study of the guarantees to be given by France to Italy in respect to water supplies.
The Experts’ terms of reference would not include a study of the hydro-electric possibilities of the Mont Cenis plateau.
It was agreed that the Experts’ report would be submitted to the Deputies.
II. Austro-Italian Frontier
After studying the Report drawn up by the Committee of Hydroelectric Experts following the Austrian request for a minor rectification of the Austro-Italian frontier in the north-eastern section of the Alto Adige, the Council agreed that the request could not be regarded as constituting a minor frontier rectification as stated in the Austrian Federal Government’s aide-mémoire of 30th May, 1946 (C.F.M. (D) (46) 92).95
The Deputies would examine the question of the guarantees to be given to Austria by Italy regarding the railway between Eastern and Northern Tyrol, through Pusterthal.
[Page 598]III. Franco-Italian Frontier
The Council adopted the Report of the Committee of Hydroelectric Experts for the Tenda and Briga district (C.F.M.(D) (46) 163).96 After an exchange of views the Council agreed to resume consideration of the Tenda and Briga question at 5 p.m. on the same afternoon.