Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Council of Foreign Ministers, Volume II

C.F.M. Files: Lot M–88: Box 2079: CFM Documents

Decision of the Council of Foreign Ministers⁴⁰

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CFM(46) (NY)73

New York, December 11, 1946.

Questions Relating to Germany and Austria

agenda for the council of foreign ministers in moscow on march 10, 1947

The next meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers will be held at held at Moscow on March 10, 1947. The agenda for the session will include the following:

1. Consideration of a Report to be supplied by the Allied Control Authority, which should deal with the following subjects:

a. Work of the Control Council since its creation on the following points: demilitarization, denazification, democratization, economic principles, reparations;

b. The establishment of central administrations and other problems connected with the economic, financial and political situation of Germany under quadripartite government;

c. Liquidation of Prussia.

2. Consideration of the form and scope of the provisional political organization of Germany

3. Preparation of a Peace Treaty with Germany:

a. Report of the Deputies for Germany:

i) Procedure;

ii) Hearings of other Governments;

b. Basic directives:

i) Future boundaries of Germany;

ii) Proposals for the Ruhr and Rhineland;

iii) Other questions.

4. U.S. draft disarmament and demilitarization treaty and other measures for political, economic and military control of Germany.

5. Consideration of the report already submitted by the Committee of Coal Experts.

6. Austrian Treaty and related matters.

40. This agenda was approved by the Council of Foreign Ministers at its 22nd Meeting, December 11, 1946; see the United States Delegation Minutes and the Record of Decisions of that meeting, pp. 1521 and 1530.