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Council of Europe1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Mr. Paul van Zeeland (Belgium) presided over the eleventh session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe which was held in Strasbourg, May 22 and 23. Several meetings of the ministers' deputies had been held prior to the convening of the eleventh session to consider primarily the Eden proposals, in particular a memorandum circulated by the United Kingdom deputy expanding his government's ideas. On the basis of this memorandum and on replies to a questionnaire circulated to governments by the deputies, the deputies reported to the Committee of Ministers that “it had not been possible to reach agreement on the action to be taken on the British proposals … the majority of the delegations considered that the Committee of Ministers and the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe … could be used as the ministerial and parliamentary institutions of (the restricted) Çommunities.” At its eleventh session, the Committee of Ministers, noting the report of the deputies, decided to give formal approval to the principles underlying the Eden proposals and to request the opinion of the Consultative Assembly on the best means of giving them effect.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1952

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2 For information on the proposals of Mr. Eden, presented to the Committee of Ministers at its tenth session, see this volume, p. 318.

3 Council of Europe, Directorate of Infomation, Council of Europe News, 05 1, 1952Google Scholar.

4 See below.

5 Council of Europe, Directorate of Information, Council of Europe News, 06 1, 1952Google Scholar.

6 Information contained in this summary of the Consultative Assembly is based on the following documents: Council of Europe, Consultative Assembly (Fourth Ordinary Session, 1st part), Official Records of Debates, Volumes I and II, Strasbourg, 1952Google Scholar; ibid., Texts Adopted by the Assembly.

7 Organization for European Economic Co-operation, European Economic Co-operation, A Third Survey prepared by the Organization for European Economic Cooperation for the Council of Europe, Paris, 05 1952Google Scholar.

8 For information on this meeting, see this volume, p. 320.

9 Council of Europe, Directorate of Information, Council of Europe News, 08 1, 1952Google Scholar; ibid., Press Release IP/505, July 15, 1952.

10 Ibid., Press Release IP/470, April 5, 1952.

11 Ibid., Council of Europe News, July 1, 1952.