ETHNIC LINE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24814, 2 March 1946, Page 7

ETHNIC LINE

JUGOSLAVIA AND ITALY

COMMISSION ON BOUNDARY

(Bep. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 28. Deputies of the Council of Five Foreign Ministers have appointed a commission of experts to prepare a report about recommendations on the boundary between Jugoslavia and Italy. This is announced in a com” munique issued by the deputies. “The boundary will, ip the main, be an ethnic line, leaving the minimum of population under alien rule. In carrying opt its task the commission Will take into consideration not only the ethnic composition of the area to be investigated, but ajso special economic and geographical features,” the communique says. The deputies have instructed the commission to study documents con? cerning Jhe boundary submitted to the Council of Foreign Ministers by the Jugoslav and Italian Governments, The commission has also been instructed to study views submitted by other United Nations ip accordance with the invitation extended to them by the Coppcjl of Foreign Ministers, The commission, pn the completion of its investigations on the spot, will go to London, where it will prepare a final report and recommendations for submission to the Council of Foreign Ministers. The commission, ’ which k will arrive at Trieste soon, will consist of M. Wolfrom (France), Mr Geraschenko (Russia), Mr C. H. M. Waldock (Britain), ana Dr. p, E. Mosley (America).