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TRIPARTITE MEETING
FOREIGN MINISTERS OF FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, AND UNITED STATES
New York, New York - September 1950
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TRIPARTITE MEETING
FOREIGN MINISTERS OF FRANCE, UNITED KINGDOM, and UNITED
STATES
NASIONAL
New York, New York - September 1950
AND
RECORDS
SERVICE
September 14, 6:45 p.m.
BUTECA
INTERIM COMMUNIQUE
The Foreign Ministers of France, the UK and the US met
at New York on September 12, 1950, in another of their regular
meetings. The meeting recessed on September 14 in view of the
meeting of the North Atlantic Council fixed for September 15.
The Ministers' discussions from September 12-14 covered
a broad range of important problems reflecting the serious
situation which confronts the world today. The Ministers were
fully agreed that the most urgent of these problems was that
of strengthening the defenses of the free world both in Europe
and in Asia and were equally agreed that immediate effective
steps must be taken to this end.
The Ministers will resume their conversations on Septem-
ber 18 after the meeting of the North Atlantic Council. In
the interval they will have had an opportunity to exchange views
with representatives of other interested Governments and to
receive and examine the reports of a number of ad hoc subcom-
mittees which were set up during the present conversations.
Insofar as Europe is concerned, the Ministers had a prelim-
inary exchange of views on the following questions: (1) the
establishment of integrated forces for the defense of Western
Europe; (2) the prompt increase of forces in being in Western
Europe; (3) arrangements for expediting and expanding the pro-
duction of necessary equipment and supplies for this defense
effort and for financing this effort; (4) the possible relation
of Western Germany to this effort; (5) steps to be taken to
safeguard internal security in Western Germany and Berlin; and
(6) appropriate measures, such as termination of the state of
war and further relaxation of occupation controls, for accelera-
ting the restoration of the position of Germany as a member of
the family of free nations.
Insofar as Asia is concerned, the Ministers welcomed the
great manifestation of solidarity of 53 nations in support of
the United Nations in meeting the aggression in Korea. They
also exchanged views in regard to the following questions:
(1) the security of Southeast Asia from direct or indirect
aggression; (2) the political, military and economic development
of the Associated States of Indochina; (3) the continuation of
the UN interest in Korea after the termination of hostilities;
and (4) questions concerning the peaceful disposition of the
problem of Formosa.
A further com unique will be issued when the Ministers have
concluded their meeting.