Council of the Organization

Meeting on April 8, 1950 as the Organ of Consultation in conformity with the Inter-American treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, the Council passed nine resolutions based on the recommendations of the Investigating Committee appointed January 6, 1950. Declaring that the facts verified by the InvestigatingCommittee were in violation of several inter-American treaties, such as the Rights and Duties of States, 1933, the Additional Protocol Relative to Non-intervention, 1936, and to the principles of Article 15 of the Charter of OAS, the Council resolved to 1) request the government of the Dominican Republic to take “immediate and effective measures to prevent government officials from tolerating, instigating, encouraging, aiding, or fomenting subversive or seditious movements against other Governments;” 2) request the Dominican Republic to comply with the Joint Declaration of June 9, 1949; 3) point out to both governments the advisability of strengthening their relations by a bilateral treaty, incorporating the aims of the Havana Convention of 1928 on the Duties and Rights of States in the Event of Civil Strife and containing a special provision to prevent ”the inhabitants, national or foreign, of each country from taking part in activities of any kind capable of disturbing the internal order of the neighboring country;” 4) point out to both governments the advisibility of reaching a bilateral agreement to deal with problems connected with the employment of Haitian workers in the Dominican Republic; 5) request both governments to take whatever action lay within their power to prevent the continuation of systematic or hostile propaganda, by any medium whatsoever, against each other or against any other American countries and their respective governments; and 6) express the hope of the Council that good relations be reestablished between the two countries.