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NATIONAR
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
SERVICE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
HOLD FOR RELEASE
MAY 25, 1950
CONFIDENTIAL: The following Joint Declaration by the Governments of
the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, MUST BE HELD IN
STRICT CONFIDENCE UNTIL RELEASED.
OTE:
Release will be simultaneous in London, Paris and
Washington, D. C., and is automatic at 11:00 A. M., E.D.T., today,
Thursday, May 25, 1950. The same release applies to all newspapers,
press associations and radio stations.
PLEASE GUARD AGAINST PREMATURE PUBLICATION OR RADIO
ANNOUNCEMENT.
EBEN A. AYERS
Assistant Press Secretary
The Governments of the United Kingdom, France and the
United States today issued the following Joint Declaration:
"The Governments of the United Kingdom, France, and the
United States, having had occasion during the recent Foreign
Ministers' Meeting in London to review certain questions
affecting the peace and stability of the Arab states and of
Israel, and particularly that of the supply of arms and war
material to these states, have resolved to make the following
statements:
"1. The three Governments recognize that the Arab states
and Israel all need to maintain a certain level of armed forces
for the purposes of assuring their internal security and their
legitimate self-defense and to permit them to play their part
in the defense of the area as a whole. All applications for
arms or war material for these countries will be considered in
the light of these principles. In this connection the three
Governments wish to recall and reaffirm the terms of the state-
ments made by their representatives on the Security Council on
August 4th, 1949, in which they declared their opposition to
the development of an arms race between the Arab states and Israel.
"2. The three Governments declare that assurances have been
received from all the states in question, to which they permit
arms to be supplied from their countries, that the purchasing
state does not intend to undertake any act of aggression against
any other state. Similar assurances will be requested from any
other state in the area to which they permit arms to be supplied
in the future.
"3. The three Governments take this opportunity of declaring
their deep interest in and their desire to promote the establish-
ment and maintenance of peace and stability in the area and
their unalterable opposition to the use of force or threat of
force between any of the states in that area. The three Govern-
ments, should they find that any of these states was preparing
to violate frontiers or armistice lines, would, consistently
with their obligations as members of the United Nations,
immediately take action, both within and outside the United
Nations, to prevent such violation."