840.811/6–2048
The Embassy of the Soviet Union to the Department of State
No. 115
In view of the exchange of notes on the question of calling a conference for working out a convention regarding the regime of navigation of the Danube, which took place between the governments of the U.S.S.R., the U.S.A., the United Kingdom, and France, as a result of which an agreement has been reached concerning the calling of a conference in Belgrade for July 30 of this year, the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, upon instructions from the Soviet Government, has the honor to request the Department of State to communicate whether it agrees to give the appropriate instructions to its Ambassador at Belgrade to deliver on June 25 to the Minister of [Page 618] Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia an identical declaration by the four Governments to the Government of Yugoslavia, the text of which had been proposed by the Department of State in notes to the Government of the U.S.S.E., the United Kingdom, and France dated May 25 of this year.
It is also borne in mind that, in the text of the declaration by the four Governments to the Government of Yugoslavia, it will be stated that Austria is invited to send its representatives to the conference in a consultative capacity.
For its part, the Soviet Government is willing to give such instructions to the Soviet Ambassador at Belgrade.1
- Anatol Iosifovich Lavrentyev.↩