Rapporteur's Report of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers

Rapporteur's Report of the Meeting of Foreign Ministers, 6 Wednesday morning, July 18, 1945. The Foreign Ministers agreed that they would recommend to the Heads of Governments that the subjects for discussion at the meeting this afternoon, July 18th, should be the fol- lowing: (1) The question of procedure and machinery for peace negotistions and territorial settlements. (2) The question of the authority of the Control Coun- / oil for Germany in political questions. (3) The Polich question, perticulerly the problems hay- 3 ing to do with the liquidation of the former London Polish Covornment and with the implementation of the Yalta Agree- mont on Poland, TRUHAR I. His Mijesty: grat. S. ARCHIVES RECORDS NATIONAL SERVICE" AND NEW Procedure for Peace Settlements. (1) The draft proposal for the establishment of a Coun- eil of Foreign Ministers, presented by the United States, wes approved in principle. (2) The following redraft of paragraph 3 of the United States draft was approved: " (3) As its immediete important task, the Council would be authorized to draw up, with a view to their submission to the United Nations, treaties of peace with Itely, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland, end to propose settlements of terri- torial questions outstanding on the termination of the war in Europe. The Council shall be utilized for the preparation of a peace settlement for Germany to be accepted by the Government of Germany when a government adequate for the purpose is established. For the discharge of each of these tasks the Council will be composed of the Members representing those Stetes which were signstory to the Tems of Surrender imposed upon the enemy State concerned. Other matters may from t ime to time be referred to the Council by agreement the States Mem- bers thereof." (3)