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United States Delegation Journal

September 24, 1946, 9 p.m.

USDel (PC) (Journal) 52

Adoption of Record of Decisions of 11th Meeting. The Record of Decisions of the 11th meeting contained the action of the Commission in adopting Article 36 (interpretation of treaty) by a two-thirds majority vote of 8 to 4.35 The Ukrainian and White Russian Delegates stated in this connection that they wished it to be placed on the Record that they associated themselves with the Soviet position in regard to the right of France to vote in the Commission. The U.S., U.K. and French Delegations reiterated the positions of their governments on this matter. The Record of Decisions of the 11th meeting was thereupon adopted.

Revised Map of Rumanian Frontier. After prolonged discussion on the revised map of the Rumanian frontier in which the U.S. and U.K. Delegations reserved the right of the CFM to verify and correct the map of the Rumanian frontiers if it found that the map did not conform to Article 1 of the treaty, the map was accepted by the Commission.

Report of the Rapporteur. Various amendments of an unimportant character were suggested by the Delegations to the report and in general were accepted by the Commission and the Rapporteur. At one stage the Soviet Delegate suggested that two reports be drawn up, one summary report for the Plenary Session and a second detailed report, which would contain all the amendments to the treaty, observations of the Rumanian Government, description of work of the [Page 550] Commission, etc., for the CFM. The U.S. Delegate stated that such a report went far beyond the competence of the Commission and would be unnecessary since he assumed that all of the CFM members kept summaries of the proceedings. In addition, the CFM had access to all the documents of the Commission. The Chairman of the Commission suggested that this question be left to the Secretary General of the Conference. The report was unanimously adopted by the Commission.36

  1. For the United States Delegation Journal account of the 11th Meeting, September 12, see p. 443.↩
  2. The report, C.P.(Plen) Doc. 15, is printed in vol. iv, p. 430.↩