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USDel (PC) (Journal) 44
The Commission adopted by a vote of 9 to 4, with one abstention, a USSR proposal to reject paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Annex 4 C (Shipping) of the Rumanian treaty. Those opposed were Australia, Greece, South Africa and the UK. The Yugoslav Delegation abstained.
The question of a definition of UN shipping (paragraph 1, Annex 4 C) was postponed because the subcommittee established the previous day to prepare an agreed text had been unable to meet for lack of a Russian interpreter.
The Commission then resumed discussion of Annex 4 B (Insurance) and discussed a proposal put forward by M. de Carbonnel (France)21 in substitution for the UK proposal, which permitted insurance companies to resume their businesses with their present guarantee deposits and reserves and required Rumania to recognize these reserves as fulfilling the legal requirements. Mr. Gregory (UK) withdrew the UK proposal in favor of the French proposal with the reservation that the period over which existing guarantee deposits and reserves should be accepted as complying with legal requirements should be extended from 18 months to three years. M. Gerashchenko (USSR) spoke in opposition to the proposal, primarily on the grounds that the subject was adequately covered by Article 24 (Restoration of Property), and moved that Annex B be deleted from the treaty. This motion was rejected by a vote of 9 to 5. Those favoring deletion were Byelo-Russia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, USSR and Yugoslavia. The Commission then adopted the first paragraph of the French proposal, which required Rumania to grant UN insurance companies every facility to resume possession of their former portfolios, by a vote of 9 [Page 470] to 5. Mr. Wilgress (Canada) moved an amendment to paragraph 2, extending from 18 months to three years the period during which Rumania would recognize existing guarantee deposits or reserves as fulfilling the legal requirements. In answer to a question by Mr. Thorp (US), Mr. Gregory (UK) gave as a chief reason for this extension of time the need for foreign insurance companies to ascertain whether or not they could resume their business in Rumania. This sub-amendment was then adopted by a vote of 7 to 6, with one abstention. Those opposing the extension were the U.S., Byelo-Russia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, USSR and Yugoslavia. The French Delegation abstained. The Commission then adopted paragraph 2 of the French proposal as amended, by a vote of 9 to 5. Those opposing adoption were Byelo-Russia, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, USSR, and Yugoslavia. Before proceeding to the proposal as a whole, the Commission rejected by a vote of 9 to 2 (Yugoslavia and France), with three abstentions (Byelo-Russia, Czechoslovakia and Greece), a Yugoslav proposal to add a final paragraph to the effect that nothing in Annex 4 B was to be interpreted as being in conflict with Article 30 (General Economic Relations). The Commission then voted by 9 to 5 to adopt the French proposal, as amended, the positions being the same as on paragraph 2.
- For text of the French proposal in the form adopted by the Commission, see C.P. (Plen) Doc. 29, the Report of the Commission on the Draft Peace Treaty with Rumania, ibid., pp. 432, 449.↩