DISPUTES IN EUROPE

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 13

DISPUTES IN EUROPE

Plan Of Peaceful Settlement (Rec. 8 p.m.) STRASBOURG (France). April 29 Foreign Ministers or their deputies from European countries today signed in Strasbourg a European convention on the peace-’ ful settlement of any disputes among them. The countries are Britain, Belgium, Denmark, France, West Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Holland, Norway and Sweden. Under the agreement they agree to submit to the Hague International Court any legal dispute between them. Non-legal disputes will be taken before a conciliation commission, and, if that fails, to an arbitration tribunal of five members.

Two countries, Austria and Turkey, did not sign the Convention during today’s ceremony. Their representatives said that their countries would sign shortly. Later, the 15-State Council of Europe Committee of Ministers met in camera to hear the British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr David Ormsby Gore, outline Britain’s "grand design” for an Atlantic parliament . Conference sources said that Mr Ormsby-Gore made a verbal statement on the British plan for a Parliamentary assembly embracing Western Europe and the United States and Canada.