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Committee of Control of the International Zone of Tangier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Tangier, a seaport in the northwestern corner of Africa totalling 225 square miles with a population of 60,000 inhabitants, was internationalized by a Convention signed on December 18, 1923, by Great Britain, France, and Spain, who agreed on its permanent neutrality. Spain occupied the area in 1940, removed British employees, and in 1941 deposed the Moroccan native ruler.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities IV. Other General International Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , February 1947 , pp. 143 - 144
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1947

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1 See Department of State Press Release, No. 771, October 17, 1945, p. 1. Signatories to the decisions of the Conference included the United States, the United Kingdom, France, USSR, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden. Spain withdrew from unilateral occupation and communicated its adherence to the Conference.

2 While the United States representative, Mr. Villard, was a signatory to the Final Act of the Conference, Article 3 of the Anglo-French Agreement “invited” the United States and the Soviet Union. “… to collaborate in the provisional regime of the Tangier Zone,” and this invitation the United States accepted on September 22, 1945.

3 The Committee of Control was authorized in Article 6 to abrogate any laws made under the period of Spanish control from 1940 which were contrary to provisions in the Statute of 1923. For present laws and regulations of the Tangier Zone, see Official Bulletin of the Administration of the Zone of Tangier.

4 Department of State Press Release No. 771, Article 7 (a), p. 8.

5 Ibid., Article 4 p. 6, authorized the withdrawal of all Spanish military forces, to be completed by October, 1945, and any military establishment not evacuated by that date should become the property of the administration of the Tangier Zone.

6 Ibid., Article 7 (d), p. 9. Until the force has been constituted provision was made whereby a police force would be supplied by the French and Sherifian Governments.

7 Department of State Press Release No. 771, Article 7 (b), p. 8.

8 Ibid., Article 2, p. 6.