C.F.M. Files: Lot M–88: Box 2080: Records of Decisions

Record of Decisions, Council of Foreign Ministers, Third Session, Fifteenth Meeting, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York, December 4, 1946, 4 p.m.

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CFM(46) (NY) 15th Meeting

Present

U.S.S.R.
M. Molotov (Chairman)
M. Gousev
M. Novikov
U.K. U.S.A
Mr. Bevin Mr. Byrnes
Mr. Jebb Mr. Vandenberg
Sir David Waley Mr. Dunn
Mr. Gregory
Mr. Sterndale Bennett
Lord Hood
France
M. Couve de Murville
M. Alphand
M. Bérard
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I. Records of Previous Meetings

It was decided to approve the records of the decisions taken by the Council of Foreign Ministers at the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Meetings of the Third Session, held in New York.

II. Report of the Deputies

The report submitted by the Acting Chairman of the Deputies was considered. (See CFM(D) (46) (NY) 127Meeting, December 4, 1946.)61

III. Article 76 of the Draft Treaty With Italy

It was decided to adopt the text of Article 76 (Annex l).62

IV. Draft Peace Treaty With Italy, Article 16 bis. Draft Instrument for the Provisional Regime (CFM(46) (NY)43)63

1. Article 14 (now Article 10 in CFM(46) (NY)43 revised December 4)

It was decided to adopt the text of Paragraph 10 of the Draft Instrument for the Provisional Regime annex to Article 16 bis (Annex 2).

2. Article 13 (now Article 9 in CFM(46) (NY)43 revised December 4)

After an exchange of views, it was decided to refer Paragraph 13 for joint study by the Sub-Committee on Trieste and the Economic Experts.

3. Article 6 (no change in number)

It was decided to approve the text submitted by the Military Experts. (See CFM(46) (NY)48)64

V. Reparation by Italy for Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania and Ethiopia and Reparation by Bulgaria for Yugoslavia and Greece

After an exchange of views, a decision on this question was deferred.

VI. Compensation for Damage to United Nations’ Property on the Territory of Italy, Roumania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland

After an exchange of views, a decision on this question was deferred.

VII. Fair Prices-Reparation Deliveries From Roumania

After an exchange of views a decision on this question was deferred.

  1. Not printed; the substance of the Deputies’ Report is recorded in the United States Delegation Minutes, supra.
  2. Annex 1 of this Record is not printed. Article 76 of the Italian Treaty, as presented to and adopted by the Council at this meeting, was included in the Treaty of Peace with Italy as article 87.
  3. Under consideration at this point is CFM (46) (NY)43 (Revised), December 4, 1946, infra.
  4. The text of the redrafted article 6 is included in footnote 67, p. 1418.