156. Editorial Note

An informal meeting of Foreign Ministers of the American Republics was held October 2-3, 1962, in Washington. In addition to Secretary Rusk, the participants included 17 Foreign Ministers or Acting Foreign Ministers, Special Representatives from Argentina and Brazil, and the Chairman of the Council of the Organization of American States. No formal, agreed records of the meetings were made. U.S. memoranda of conversation recording the four sessions are in Department of State, Central Files 371.04/10-262 and 371.04/10-362. The texts are scheduled for inclusion in the microfiche supplement to Foreign Relations, 1961–1963, volume XI. See also Document 157. Related material is in Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 65 D 533, CF 2168-2171.