Council of Foreign Ministers

On May 23, 1949, a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers will be convened in Paris, to consider questions relating to Germany and problems arising out of the situation in Berlin . . .

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

If the governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom and France agreed to postpone the establishment of a West German state, pending a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers to consider the German problem as a whole, would the government of the U.S.S.R. be prepared to remove the restrictions which the Soviet authorities have imposed on communications between Berlin and the Western zones of Germany?

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

Reston, or his sources, speculated that at the promised Council of Foreign Ministers meeting, the Soviets would propose to establish a single German government and the withdrawal of all foreign occupation forces from the country.

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

As another American diplomat, quoted in a Times story by Drew Middleton, said, “If Germany is united as a result of the Council of Foreign Ministers, it will be a communist state within five years . . .”

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

The Council of Foreign Ministers finally met in Paris on June 23, 1949, a day short of a year from the beginning of the Berlin Blockade.

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

On the Kurfürstendamm, the main shopping street of West Berlin, the news was coming from Rudolf-Günter Wagner, speaking through the loudspeaker on the fender of his RIAS jeep: Agreement has been reached between the three Western powers and the Soviets regarding the raising of the Berlin Blockade and the holding of a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers.

Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

Council of Foreign Ministers held from Monday - Tuesday, 6-7

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

Another unsuccessful meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in London ended in open disagreement over German peace terms.

1947, March 10-April 24 2001

The pact was adopted to by the EU's Council of Foreign Ministers on

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

In attempting to justify the new bizone (which rapidly became known as "Bizonia") US Secretary of State James Byrnes, at a Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Paris on July 11, 1946, invited all occupying powers to merge their zones economically with the US Zone.

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