Record of Proceedings

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Conference

for (the) Conclusion and

Signature of (the)

Treaty of Peace with Japan,

DEPARTMENT OF STATE PUBLICATION 4392

International Organization and Conference Series II, Far Eastern 3

Released December 1951

Division of Publications, Office of Public Affairs

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D. C. Price $1.25

This Record of Proceedings of the Conference for the Conclusion and Signature of the Treaty of Peace With Japan, held at San Francisco, California, September 4-8, 1951, has been prepared in compliance with Article 24 of the Rules of Procedure of the Conference. That article stipulates, "The Secretary General shall cause to be prepared for distribution among the participating governments a Record of Proceedings which shall include the verbatim minutes of the plenary sessions."

In accordance with article 12 of the Rules of Procedure, the verbatim minutes of the plenary sessions of the Conference were issued only in the English language. Corrections made by the respective delegations in the verbatim minutes as issued initially at the Conference in provisional mimeographed form have been incorporated in the texts reproduced in this volume.

Since a number of the formal statements which were made on behalf of participating countries at the Second through Seventh Plenary Sessions, together with the formal statement made on behalf of Japan at the Eighth Plenary Session, were delivered in languages other than English, the texts of those statements are also reproduced in the languages in which they were delivered in a supplement to this Record of Proceedings.

Warrenkelchmer

Secretary General.

Foreword . .

List of Participants

Officers of the Conference

Members of Delegations.

International Secretariat.

Invitation to the Conference.

Agenda

Rules of Procedure

Verbatim Minutes

Welcoming Ceremony, 6:45 p.m., September 4, 1951