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Council of Foreign Ministers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The sixth session of the Council of Foreign Ministers met in Paris from May 23 to June 20, 1949, to discuss the German question and the Austrian treaty. The fifth session, held in London in November–December 1947, had closed without agreement as to the drafting of peace treaties for Germany and Austria. At the recent meeting France was represented by Robert Schuman, the USSR by A. Y. Vishinsky, the United Kingdom by Ernest Bevin and the United States by Dean Acheson. A preliminary requirement for the opening of this meeting was the lifting of the Berlin blockade and counterblockade measures by members of the Council. Informal discussions in New York between Soviet and United States representatives (Jacob Malik and Philip Jessup) resulted on May 12 in preliminary agreement on this problem, which had stood for ten months as an obstacle in the way of any consideration by the members of the Council of the German question as a whole.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: IV. War and Transitional Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , August 1949 , pp. 561 - 564
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1949

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References

1 For a summary of this session see International Organization, 11, p. 153.

2 New York Times, May 24, 1949, p. 1.

3 Christian Science Monitor, May 25, 1949, p. 7.

4 For the text of the joint United States French-United Kingdom proposal see the New York Times, May 29, 1949, p. 2.

5 For information regarding the election of this congress see this issue, p. 560.

6 Christian Science Monitor, June 3, 1949, p. 1. For the texts of the United States and the USSR proposals on the rule of Berlin see the New York Times, June 8, 1949, p. 3.

7 For the text of this communiqué of the Council of Foreign Ministers see this issue, p. 591–3.