Meeting of Heads of Government in Berlin - Approved Proposal for the Establishment of a Council of Foreign Ministers and Agenda, with Handwritten Notes

MEETING OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT, BERLIN, JULX PQ, 1945, 4 F.M. ATTACHMENT 1 APPROVED PROPOSAL FOR THE OF A COUNCIL OF FORLIGN MINISTERS (1) There shall be established a Council composed of the Foreign Ministers of Great Britain, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, France, and the United States. (2) The Council shall mert at London and its first meeting shall be held on . Each of the Foreign Ministers shall be accompanied by a high-ranking deputy duly authorized and capable of carrying on the work of the Council in the absence of his Foreign Minister. He will likowise be accompaniod by a small staff of technical advisers suited to the probloms concorned and to the organization of a joint sccrotariat. (3) As its immediate important task, the Council would bo authorized to draw up, with a viow to thoir submission to the Unitod Nations, troaties of poaco with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary and to proposo sottlements of torri- torial quostions outstanding on the tormination of tho war in Europo. Tho Council sholl bo utilizod for tho propara- tion of a poaco sottlomont for Gormany to be accoptod by tho Governmont of Gormany whon 2. govormment adoquato for tho pur- poso is ostablished. For the discharge of oach of those tasks the Council will bo composed of tho nombors represonting those States which woro signatory to tho torms of surrondor im- posed upon tho onomy Stato concornod. For the purposes of tho poace sottloment for Itcly, Franco shall bo rogardod s. as a signatory to tho torms of surrondor for Italy. Othor mombors should bo invited to participatc when is ARCHIVES "NATIONAL SERVICE' RECORDS AND QUANT? matters diroctly concorning thon aro undor discussion. e go (4) Whenevor tho Council is considering a question of diroct intorest to a Stato not roprosontod thereon, such State should bo invitod to sond roprosentativos to partici- pate in the discussion and stuay of that question. It is not intendod, howovor, to fix hard and fast rulos but rathor to permit tho Council to adapt its procedure to tho particular problom undor considoration. In somo casos it might dosire to hold its own prolininary discussions prior to the partici- pation of othor intorested Statos. In othor cases tho Council might dosire to convoko a. formal conferenco of tho States chiofly interestod in socking a solution of the par- ticular problom. It is so authorizod. DECLASSIFIED E.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E) Dept. of State letter, Ava. 10, 1972 By NLT-RC F.26.76