EUROPEAN EXECUTIVE
Economic Co-operation MEETING IN PARIS NZPA— Reuter—Copyright Rec. 11 p.m. PARIS, Apl. 4. The .Ministers of 18 Marshall Plan nations will meet in Paris today to elect new officials to their council and the Seven-country Executive Committee. They are expected to appoint Dr Dirk Stikker, the ad-year-old Netherlands Foreign Minister, as chairman of the Recovery Programme Organisation. If elected, he will hold the strongest position yet offered to any European statesman in the economic organisation since most West European nations favour combining the chairmanship of the council with liaison of political mediator. Dr Stikker would succeed’the Belgian Foreign Minister, Mr Paul van Zeeland, as chairman. The election of the new officials —the main business of the meeting at which the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, will represent Britain—coincides with the drive to streamline the “unity” structure of the Organisation for European Economic Co-opera-tion. The Ministers will also hear the report by the chairman and two vice-chairmen which is likely to propose centralising bilateral trade negotiations within the framework of OEEC. This would aim at closer coordination of commercial policies through a central mechanism.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27357, 5 April 1950, Page 7
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