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Department of State Disarmament Files

Plan of Work Approved by the Commission for Conventional Armaments, June 18, 19471

RAC D–13/5
[Washington,] June 19, 1947.
(1)
Consider and make recommendations to the Security Council concerning armaments and armed forces which fall within the jurisdiction of the Commission for Conventional Armaments.
(2)
Consideration and determination of general principles in connection with the regulation and reduction of armaments and armed forces.
(3)
Consideration of practical and effective safeguards by means of an international system of control operating through special organs (and by other means) to protect complying states against the hazards of violations and evasions.
(4)
Formulate2 practical proposals for the regulation and reduction of armaments and armed forces.
(5)
Extension of the principles and proposals set forth in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 above to states which are not members of the United Nations.
(6)
Submission of a report or reports to the Security Council including, if possible, a draft convention.
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It is proposed that under the six headings listed above all of the references by the various delegations suggested for the plan of work will be considered.

It is also understood that this plan of work does not limit the freedom of individual delegations to make additional suggestions at a later time.

  1. On June 6, the Committee on Conventional Armaments’ subcommittee on a plan of work decided to submit both the United States plan (telegram 427 from New York, May 6, p. 472) and the Soviet Plan (telegram 494 from New York, May 21, p. 476) to the Commission. At its 6th Meeting, June 11, the CCA considered the report of the subcommittee (S/C.3/12). At its 8th Meeting, June 18, the CCA adopted the United States plan as amended during the course of discussion, the text of which is printed here. At its 9th Meeting, June 25, the CCA approved its report to the Security Council including this plan of work. For the text of the entire report, see SC, 2nd yr., Suppl. No. 14, pp. 141–143.↩
  2. The underlining, which appears in the source text, indicates addition to or alteration of the United States draft proposal.↩