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South Pacific Commission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Experience gained from the functioning of the Caribbean Commission provided a working basis for the creation of the South Pacific Commission, since four of the six participating governments at the South Seas Conference were already members of the Caribbean Commission, a similar regional organization. Delegations representing the governments which administer non-self-governing territories in the South Pacific area (Australia, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) met at the South Seas Conference at Canberra from January 28 to February 6, 1947, to prepare an agreement for the establishment of a regional commission which might aid in promoting the social and economic advancement of 2,000,000 peoples in the South Pacific. The Conference was called by the Australian and New Zealand governments in fulfilment of the Canberra Pact of January, 1944.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Regional Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 1947 , pp. 368 - 370
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1947

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References

1 Department of State, Bulletin, XVI, p. 459–460.

2 Agreement Establishing the South Pacific Commission, South Seas Commission Conference Papers, P. 18, Canberra, February 12, 1947, p. 1–2. For text of the agreement see this issue, p. 419 f.

3 Ibid., pp. 2–5.

4 Ibid., pp. 9–10.

5 Department of State, Bulletin, XVI, p. 464.