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	Council of Foreign Ministers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Council of Foreign Ministers was an organisation agreed upon at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 and announced in the Potsdam Agreement.
		The Potsdam Agreement specified that the Council would be composed of the Foreign Ministers of the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, China, France, and the United States.
		The Ministers met twice in 1945 first at the London Conference of Foreign Ministers and then in December at the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers and again at the Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers in 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Council_of_Foreign_Ministers (821 words)

	Foreign Ministers, Council of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		FOREIGN MINISTERS, COUNCIL OF [Foreign Ministers, Council of] organization of the foreign ministers of the World War II Allies—the United States, Great Britain, France, and the USSR—that, in a long series of meetings, attempted to reach political settlements after the war.
		In Mar.-Apr., 1947, the foreign ministers met again in Moscow to discuss peace treaties with Germany and Austria, but the only agreement reached was on the formal dissolution of the Land [state] of Prussia (a large part of which had already been annexed by the Soviet Union and Poland).
		The council was revived in May-June, 1949, when the foreign ministers, meeting at Paris, reached an agreement ending the Soviet blockade of Berlin but again failed to agree on German reunification.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/ForeignM.asp (936 words)

	FOREIGN MINISTERS, COUNCIL OF. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In Mar.–Apr., 1947, the foreign ministers met again in Moscow to discuss peace treaties with Germany and Austria, but the only agreement reached was on the formal dissolution of the Land [state] of Prussia (a large part of which had already been annexed by the Soviet Union and Poland).
		Another attempt to reach agreement on Germany and Austria failed when the foreign ministers met at London (Nov.–Dec., 1947); at this meeting there was a marked deterioration in the relations between the USSR and the other three powers.
		The council was revived in May–June, 1949, when the foreign ministers, meeting at Paris, reached an agreement ending the Soviet blockade of Berlin but again failed to agree on German reunification.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/fo/ForeignM.html (616 words)

	The Avalon Project : A Decade of American Foreign Policy
		The third session of the Council of Foreign Ministers which was held in New York City at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel from November 4 to December 12, 1946, finally completed the texts of the treaties of peace with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Finalnd.
		The purpose of this session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, which was the third devoted to the drafting of these peace treaties, was to consider the recommendations of the Paris Peace Conference and to endeavor to agree upon the final texts.
		At the New York session of the Council of Foreign Ministers the principles for the permanent statute and provisional regime of the Free Territory of Trieste as recommended by the Conference were incorporated in a final draft after protracted negotiation.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/decade/decade22.htm (1833 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Foreign Ministers, Council of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Foreign Ministers, Council of FOREIGN MINISTERS, COUNCIL OF [Foreign Ministers, Council of] organization of the foreign ministers of the World War II Alliesâ”the United States, Great Britain, France, and the USSRâ”that, in a long series of meetings, attempted to reach political settlements after the war.
		Council of the European Union COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION [Council of the European Union] branch of the governing body of the European Union (EU) that has the final vote on legislation proposed by the European Commission and deliberated by the European Parliament.
		It is composed of the heads of government of the EU nations and their foreign ministers, in conjunction with the president and two additional members from the European Commission.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/04606.html (744 words)

	CNN Cold War - Historical Document: Potsdam Agreement
		Each of the Foreign Ministers will be accompanied by a high-ranking Deputy, duly authorized to carry on the work of the Council in the absence of his Foreign Ministers, and by a small staff of technical advisers.
		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.
		Council of Foreign Ministers Draft for identical invitation to be sent separately by each of the Three Governments to the Governments of China and France.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/documents/potsdam.html (6061 words)

	Meetings of the leaders of the CIS member states(CIS Countries)
		Supported was the initiative by the Council of the Heads of Security Organs of the Commonwealth's countries on preparation of draft documents, stipulating the procedure of organization and conduct of joint anti-terrorist actions on the territory of the CIS member states.
		The CFM adopted a Decision on the conduct of a scientific and practical conference, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the CIS's establishment and advised the Commonwealth's Executive Committee to ensure its preparation.
		The main guidelines of activity of the Coordinating Council are: cooperation between the CIS member states' tax agencies, elaboration of proposals on improvement and harmonization of national legislation, facilitation of implementation of interstate and intergovernmental agreements and decisions in the field of tax policy.
	www.russiannewsnetwork.com /cisc.html (5449 words)

	SICE - XI Andean Presidential Council / Act of Cartagena
		At the opening of this Council meeting, the Presidents of Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, and Paraguay and the Foreign Minister of Haiti heartily congratulated the Presidents of Ecuador and Peru on the signing of the global and definitive Peace Agreement of October 26, 1998.
		To instruct the Ministers to give priority to defining for the border zones of the Andean countries, educational policies that are oriented toward advancing regional integration, improving the quality and coverage of the education, respecting the cultural identity, and reinforcing a culture of peace.
		To commission the Ministers of Culture to carry out a multicultural project to be known as the Route of the Andes, which could be used as much for investigating the traditions, history and common legacy of the subregion, as for building bridges of understanding and knowledge among the different cultures that occupy it.
	www.sice.oas.org /Trade/Junac/XIacta_e.asp (3131 words)

	Ain-Al-Yaqeen - March 5, 2004 - Article 3
		Kuwait's Information Minister Mohammed Abu Al-Hassan said at the end of the first meeting of the 90th session the Foreign Ministers of Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that the ministers have discussed the appendices submitted by the Arab League to reactivate the Arab joint action andreform the Arab League.
		In a statement to the press, the Egyptian Foreign Minister and the head of the meeting Ahmad Maher announced that the ministers agreed on a document over the development of the Arab League which will be submitted to the Arab leaders during the upcoming Arab summit in Tunisia.
		The Arab foreign ministers were expected to forward to the Arab leaders a report on the outcome of their discussions on how to reform the Arab League.
	www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20040305/feat3en.htm (3411 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Republic of Armenia Official Site
		The key themes of the agenda were issues relating to enhancing the efficiency and improvement of the activities of Commonwealth bodies, draft statements of heads of CIS states on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the UN and the Agreement for Humanitarian Cooperation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
		The Foreign Affairs Ministers considered a decision to declare 2006, the Year of the Commonwealth of Independent States and an appeal by the CIS Heads of States to the people of the member states and international community on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl Electric Power Station.
		Within the context of UN reforms, the Council of Foreign Ministers stressed the importance of having inclusive reforms and their endorsement by the majority of UN member states.
	www.armeniaforeignministry.com /pr_05/050823_cis_material.html (278 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs - International Organisations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Council of Foreign Ministers met under the presidency of Croatia in Zagreb in November 2000 and Split in May 2001.
		The Ministers for the Environment of all seven AII countries, who met in Ancona on 16 March 2001, set up an Environmental Task Force as a mechanism for periodic consultation, as well as preparing projects on food safety and the struggle against drought and preparation of emergency plans in the case of ecological disasters.
		The Foreign Ministers of member countries meet at least twice a year and their deputies, the permanent representatives at the headquarters in Strasbourg, meet at least twice a month.
	www.esteri.it /eng/4_27_57_46.asp (2071 words)

	Security Council Foreign Ministers Discuss Counter-Terrorism
		United Nations -- Foreign ministers of the 15 member nations of the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a new resolution on international terrorism November 12 underscoring the necessity for all nations to participate in the fight against terrorists and those who support them.
		During the hour-and-a-half meeting, the foreign ministers focused on the need for a determined, united, comprehensive, and sustained global strategy against terrorism that complies with the council's recent resolution 1373, aimed at cutting off finances and enhancing cooperation among law enforcement agencies.
		The resolution adopted by the foreign ministers declared that international terrorism is "one of the most serious threats to international peace and security in the 21st century" and condemned "all acts, methods and practices of terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, in all their forms and manifestations wherever and by whomever committed."
	www.usembassy.it /file2001_11/alia/a1110906.htm (1427 words)

	Key Issues: Nuclear Weapons: History:
		The Conference reached an agreement for the establishment of a Council of Foreign Ministers representing the five principal powers to continue the necessary preparatory work for the peace settlements and to take up other matters which from time to time may be referred to the Council by agreement of the governments participating in the Council.
		Each of the Foreign Ministers will be accompanied by a high-ranking deputy, duly authorized to carry on the work of the Council in the absence of his Foreign Minister, and by a small staff of technical advisers.
		The establishment of the Council of Foreign Ministers for the specific purposes named in the text will be without prejudice to the agreement of the Crimea conference that there should be periodic consultation among the foreign secretaries of the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United Kingdom.
	www.nuclearfiles.org /menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/pre-cold-war/hiroshima-nagasaki/potsdam-declarations-1945-08-02.htm (4370 words)

	Potsdam Agreement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The participants were the top leaders of those three states, Josef Stalin, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and the ministers of foreign affairs of those states.
		See the London Conference of Foreign Ministers and the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers which took place later in 1945.
		Allied troops were to withdrawn immediately from Tehran and that further stages of the withdrawal of troops from Iran should be considered at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers to be held in London in September, 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Potsdam_Agreement (1195 words)

	NATO Ministerial Meetings - Madrid, Spain - 3-4 June 2003
		Ilinka Mitreva, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia(1)
		Nicolae Dudau, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova
		Remarks of H.E. Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
	www.nato.int /docu/comm/2003/06-madrid/0306-madrid.htm (714 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Front page \| Back to the fold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Houchiar Zibari, Iraq's foreign minister under the Iraqi Governing Council, attends the Arab Council of Foreign Ministers at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on Tuesday.
		Following hints of approval from Arab capitals Houchiar Zibari, the transitional Iraqi foreign minister, is planning to tour Arab states to meet leaders and argue the case for a "new Iraq".
		Speaking to reporters at the end of the meetings several Arab foreign ministers insisted that Zibari and the IGC will have their work cut out if they want to turn such tentative approval into a fully-fledged recognition of the new de facto power in Iraq.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/655/fr2.htm (797 words)

	Chairman?s summary of the meeting of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council in Foreign
		Ministers discussed the challenges for the International Community in the Balkans in 2005 and beyond.
		Ministers reiterated the resolve of their states to fight the scourge of terrorism.
		Ministers expressed appreciation for the progress in implementing NATO policy on combating the trafficking in human beings which would apply to all personnel taking part in NATO-led operations.
	globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2004/12/mil-041209-nato04.htm (474 words)

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		The US and British justification was the French obstruction in the Allied Control Council to the formation of any centralized economic agencies and the need by the United States and Great Britain to reduce the amount of financial support they were being forced to pay to underwrite the feeding and support of their respective zones.
		After the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Moscow during March and April 1947, resulted in no agreement on a German peace treaty or German unification, Secretary of State George C. Marshall met with General Lucius Clay in Berlin on April 25, 1947.
		The Economic Council was given the responsibility for adopting and promulgating ordinances subject to approval by the Anglo-American Bipartite Board.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /whistlestop/BERLIN_A/PAGE_1.HTM (1563 words)

	Foreign Ministers Council Session of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Council of Foreign Ministers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) met in regular session on May 15 in Shanghai.
		It was attended by the heads of the foreign affairs agencies of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the PRC, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
		In a businesslike and constructive atmosphere, the ministers examined matters related to the preparations for the anniversary, fifth session of the SCO Council of Heads of State to be held in Shanghai in June 2006.
	www.mid.ru /brp_4.nsf/0/03074936ACF2A43AC3257170002D2893 (318 words)

	Pravda.RU:CIS Council Of Foreign Ministers To Discuss Joint Foreign Policy Efforts
		The CIS Council of Foreign Ministers will gather on November 29 to discuss coordination of foreign policies and establishment of a legal base for cooperation.
		The ministers will, in part, consider a draft analytical report on the results of the CIS' decade-long activity and its further tasks, including measures to improve coordination of foreign policies of the CIS members.
		The Foreign Ministers' Council is also due to debate a draft protocol on joint anti-terrorist activities of the CIS member states.
	newsfromrussia.com /cis/2001/11/28/22233_.html (183 words)

	The Berlin (Potsdam) Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		For the discharge of each of these tasks the Council will be composed of the Members representing those States which were signatory to the terms of surrender imposed upon the enemy State concerned.
		It was understood that the establishment of the Council of Foreign Ministers for the specific purposes named in the text would be without prejudice to the agreement of the Crimea Conference that there should be periodical consultation between the Foreign Secretaries of the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United Kingdom.
		Appropriate steps shall be taken by the Control Council to exercise control and the power of disposition over German-owned external assets not already under the control of United Nations which have taken part in the war against Germany.
	www.global-alliance.net /SFPT/PotsdamConference1945.htm- (5969 words)

	Demiurgus Peace International > The Peace Initiative > World Council of Former Foreign Ministers
		Alexander Bessmertnykh - Russian Foreign Minister during 1991-1992 - was able to win the support of numerous contemporaries for an extraordinary plan.
		His idea: the pooling of the immense talent and political experience resources shared by "former foreign ministers" to aid mankind.
		Dozens of former foreign ministers answered Bessmertnykh's call with enthusiasm and spontaneously pledged their support.
	www.dpi-zug.org /dpi/worldmin.html (163 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - CSTO foreign ministers to meet in Moscow this fall
		The session was attended by the Armenian, Belarussian, Kazakh, Tajik and Russian foreign ministers and the acting Kyrgyz foreign minister.
		The CSTO foreign ministers issued a statement on the ratification of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
		The Foreign Ministry said Russia had assumed the chair of the CSTO Council of Foreign Ministers for the next year.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20050622/40657787.html (259 words)

	2005 Letter to the Members of the EU Council of the Foreign Ministers
		Rainbow Party, the political party of the ethnic Macedonian minority in Greece, delivered to the twenty five Ministers of the EU countries -- via the European Political Party "European Free Alliance" and the President Mr Nelly Maes -- the following letter with the main positions of the party.
		The letter was also delivered to the President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament as well as to the Commissioner on EU Enlargement.
		TO: The members of the EU Council of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
	www.florina.org /html/2005/2005_letter_to_eu.html (1121 words)

	MOSCOW MEETING OF FOREIGN MINISTERS
		In September the Council of Foreign Ministers at London had been unable to agree upon the procedure to be followed in drawing up the European peace treaties.
		I urged upon Generalissimo Stalin and Foreign Minister Molotoff that it was in their interest as well as ours, that the peoples of these countries, as well as their governments, should be peacefully disposed toward the Soviet Union.
		The three Governments also agreed, with the concurrence of China, on the establishment of an Allied Council for Japan to be composed of representatives of the Soviet Union, British Commonwealth, China and the United States under the chairmanship of General MacArthur as the Supreme Allied Commander.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/policy/post-war/451230a.html (3088 words)

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