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United States Delegation Journal
USDel (PC) (Journal) 62
The request of the Italian representatives that the questions and answers given before the Military Commission be inserted in the Record was rejected.
The report on the peace treaty with Hungary was taken up. General Slavin proposed the deletion of the US resolution regarding identity of language for the articles on prohibitions in the Balkan and [Page 674] Finnish treaties.21 This proposal was rejected by a vote of 11 to 5 with 2 abstentions and 3 absentees. However, General Slavin’s alternative proposal, a resolution representing the opinion of his Delegation and the five nations who shared it was inserted. This resolution stated that:
“The representatives of Byelorussia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the USSR, the Ukraine, and Yugoslavia declare that, in their point of view, ho unanimous decision of the Commission about the inclusion of motor torpedo boats in the draft peace treaties with Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Finland was taken. The unanimous decision about identical texts of Article 12 of the Bulgarian treaty and corresponding articles of the Rumanian and Hungarian and Finnish treaties which was adopted on the 28th of September 1946 refers to the decision that was already taken by the Military Commission (see amended text of Article 12 in the minutes for the meeting of the Commission for the 27th of September 1946)22 and not future decisions. The French and Russian text of this resolution confirm our declaration.”
This insertion was agreed to and will follow after the text of the American resolution.
The report on the Rumanian treaty was adopted with the insertion of the declaration General Slavin had made in the discussion of the report on the Hungarian treaty. The final text of the Italian report was unanimously adopted. The report on the Finnish treaty was adopted with several minor changes.23