HELP & SUPPORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1943, Page 3

HELP & SUPPORT

THREE POWER GUARANTEE TO PERSIA ASSURANCE OF CONTINUED CO-OPERATION. IN WAR AND PEACE. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, December 5. The following declaration on Persia (Iran) was made following upon the three-Power conference in Teheran: “The President of the United States, the Premier of the U.S.S.R., and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, having consulted with each other and the Prime Minister of Iran, desire to declare the mutual agreement of their three Governments regarding their relations with Iran.

“The Governments of the United States, U.S.S.R., and United Kingdom, recognise the assistance which Iran has given in the prosecution of the war against the common enemy, particularly by facilitating the transportation of supplies from overseas to the Soviet Union. The three Governments realise that the war has caused special economic difficulties for Iran, and they are agreed that they will continue to make available to the Government of Iran such economic assistance as may be possible, having regard to the heavy demands upon them by their worldwide military operations and to the world-wide shortage' of transport, raw material and supplies for civilian consumption. “With respect to the post-war period, the three Governments are in accord with the Government of Iran that any economic problem confronting Iran at the close of the hostilities should receive full consideration along with those of the other members of the United Nations by conferences or international agencies which are held or created to deal with international economic matters.

“The three Governments are at one with the Government of Iran in the desire for maintenance of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iran.

“They count on the participation of Iran, with all the other peace-loving-nations, in the establishment of international peace, security and prosperity after the war in accordance with the principles of the Atlantic Charter, to which all four Governments have continued to subscribe”