Rapporteur's Report of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers

RAPPORTEUR'S REPORT OF THE MEETING OF FOREIGN MINISTERS, JULY 24, 1945 1. German, Austrian and Italian Reparations and German Economic Questions The Chairman declared that the subcommittee dealing with the German economic questions and German reparations was not yet ready to present a further report on these matters. Mr. Molotov pointed out that these committees had also been assigned the question of Austrian and Italian reparations. He presented two brief papers in regard to reparations from these two latter countries. It was agreed that these papers should be referred to the economic subcommittee for study. It was also agreed that discussion of German reparations and German economic questions should be postponed until tomorrow. 2. European Oil Supplies The Chairman inquired whether a report was ready on the U.S. paper on this subject which had been presented on July 20. He was informed that this paper was still before the economic subcommittee and it was agreed that discussion on this subject should be postponed until that committee reports. TRUMAN 3. Implementation of the Yalta Declaration on Liberated Europe and ARCHIVES AND S. "NATIONAL (CCORDS Satellite States is SERVICE" The subcommittee dealing with this subject was also not yet ready to report and it was agreed to postpone discussion until that report is available. 4. Admission to the United Nations The Chairman suggested that, since the subcommittee dealing with this matter had also not been able to come to any agreement, the question should be considered at this meeting by the Foreign Ministers on the basis of the document on which the subcommittee had been working. Mr. Molotov said that the Soviet Delegation would not be able to take part in the discussion of this document since it omitted reference to the admission to the United Nations of Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Finland. Mr. Eden suggested that the last sentence of the first paragraph of the paper in question by dropped and Mr. Byrnes agreed. Mr. Eden proposed a redraft of paragraph two of the paper which would take into account the interest of other countries concerned with the peace treaty with Italy. This paragraph is embodied in the revised document "Admission to the United Nations" attached to this report. The Chairman proposed the following additional paragraph to be inserted in the document in order to meet the point which Mr. Molotov had raised: