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Danube Commission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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At a meeting of the Danube Commission in December 1951, a Soviet proposal that only states whose vessels were directly involved in an accident on the Danube should take part in its investigation was approved. Yugoslavia objected to the proposal as a violation of the sovereign rights of the riparian states which, Yugoslavia felt, should investigate any accident which occurred in its territory. At a further meeting of the commission at Galatz, Rumania, in July 1952, a commission was set up to examine a Yugoslav proposal toamend the rules of procedure and the Statute. A Yugoslav motion that this commission report to the next session of the commission in December 1952, was rejected; no date was set for further action on the Yugoslav resolution. The Yugoslav delegate (Djurich) maintained that, at present, the commission was not independent but was controlled by the Soviet Union; the purpose of his government's resolution, he continued, would be to make the organization more representative.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: IV. Other Functional Organizations
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1953

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References

1 For Previous information on the Danube Commission, see International Organization, V, p. 844Google Scholar.

2 Chronology of International Events and Documents, VIII, p. 61.

3 Ibid., p. 433; The Times (London), 07 4, 1952Google Scholar.