C.F.M. Files: Lot M–88: Box 2080: Records of Decisions
Record of Decisions, Council of Foreign Ministers, Third Session, Eleventh Meeting, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, November 29, 1946, 4 p.m.
CFM(46)(NY) 11th Meeting
Present
| U.S.S.R. | ||
| M. Molotov (Chairman) | ||
| M. Vyshinsky | ||
| M. Gousev | ||
| U.K. | U.S.A | |
| Mr. Bevin | Mr. Byrnes | |
| Mr. Jebb | Mr. Connally | |
| Mr. Gregory | Mr. Vandenberg | |
| Lord Hood | Mr. Dunn | |
| France | ||
| M. Couve de Murville | ||
| M. Alphand | ||
| M. Bonnet | ||
| M. Bérard |
I. Deputies’ Report
The Council heard and approved the report of the 123rd meeting of the Deputies, made by the Acting Chairman.
II. Withdrawal of Allied Troops (Article 21, Draft Treaty with Roumania,79 and Article 20, Draft Treaty with Hungary).80
The U.K. Delegation did not press for a discussion of new questions in connection with these Articles and it was decided that these agreed Articles would be retained unchanged in the texts of the Draft Treaties with Roumania and Hungary.
III. Date of Withdrawal of Allied Troops From the Free Territory of Trieste
The report of the Military Experts on the withdrawal of troops from the Free Territory of Trieste was approved (CFM(46) (NY) 34).81
[Page 1353]IV. Regime of the Danube
Consideration of the proposal of the U.S.S.R. Delegation on the Danube and the amendments tabled thereon was deferred.
V. Article 16 Bis. Paragraph 10(b). Citizenship82
The wording of paragraph 10(b), Citizenship, was approved as follows (the last paragraph is the proposed U.S. addition mentioned at the 123rd meeting of the Deputies; see Record of Decisions, Minute IV, (c)):
“The conditions for the acquisition of citizenship by persons not qualifying for original citizenship shall be determined by the Constituent Assembly of the Free Territory and embodied in the Constitution.
“Such conditions shall, however, exclude the acquisition of citizenship by members of the former Italian Fascist Police (O.V.R.A.), who have not been exonerated by the competent authorities, including the Allied Military Authorities, who were responsible for the administration of the area.
“No person who has acquired the citizenship of the Free Territory shall be deprived of his civic or political rights except as judicial punshment for the infraction of the penal laws of the Territory.”
VI. Italian Reparations for Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania and Ethiopia and Bulgarian Reparations for Yugoslavia and Greece
After an exchange of views, a decision on this question was deferred.
VII. Compensation for Damages to United Nations’ Property in Italy, Roumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland
After an exchange of views, a decision on this question was deferred.
VIII. Roumanian Treaty, Article 24, Paragraphs 4(d) and (e) Nondiscrimination Against United Nations Nationals.83
After an exchange of views, a decision on this question was deferred
IX. Next Meeting.
Saturday, November 30, 1946, at 4:00 p.m.
- Vol. iv, p. 68.↩
- This article is identical, mutatis mutandis, to article 21 of the Draft Rumanian Treaty; for text, see ibid.↩
- For the text of this short document, see footnote 46, p. 1323.↩
- For the previous draft of this item, see CFM(46) (NY)28, November 25, 1946, p. 1278.↩
- The items under reference were included in the Record of Recommendations of the Peace Conference on the Draft Peace Treaty with Rumania, vol. iv, p. 925.↩