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Commonwealth Consultative Committee for South and Southeast Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
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At the first meeting of the foreign ministers of the British Commonwealth of Nations in Colombo, Ceylon, January 9 to 15, 1950, the Minister of External Affairs of Australia (Spender) proposed a program of economic assistance to south and southeast Asia aimed at supplying, first, the necessary consumers goods to maintain a minimum standard of living in areas now on the verge of starvation; second, assistance necessary to increase production; and, third, capital equipment. The proposal was referred to the several Commonwealth governments, as, in the words of the final communiqué, “Executive decisions are not taken at Commonwealth meetings of this kind; but, as a result of the valuable exchange of views which has taken place, recommendations for the furtherance of economic development in South and Southeast Asia will be submitted to Commonwealth Governments for their consideration”.
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References
1 New York Times, January 14, 1950.
2 Australia, Department of External Affairs, Current Notes on International Affairs, XXI, p. 44–49Google Scholar.
3 Unless otherwise noted, information in the following summary was based on The Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic Development in South and Southeast Asia: Report by the Commonwealth Consultative Committee, London: 09–10, 1950Google Scholar. This report appeared as Command Paper 8080. In addition to the information summarized here, development programs for India, Pakistan, Ceylon, and the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo and Sarawak are included in the report.
4 For further information on the activities of the International Emergency Food Council, see International Organization, I, p. 380–381, 554–555; II, p. 119, 120, 121, 161–162; and III, p. 143, 146, 340, 525, 704.
5 Australia, Department for External Affairs, Current Notes on International Affairs, Vol. XXI, No. 5, p. 350Google Scholar.
6 Ibid., No. 10, p. 730–731.
7 Ibid., No. 7, p. 485.
8 Ibid., No. 12, p. 886.
9 The United States had announced on January 24, 1951, that it had accepted the invitation of the government of Ceylon to attend the meeting and announced further that the United States “intended coordinating its own program in that area with those of the United Nations and the Commonwealth.” (Department of State, Bulletin, XXIV, p. 234.)Google Scholar.
10 Chronology of International Events and Documents, VII, p. 150.
11 Australia, Department of External Affairs, Current Notes on International Affairs, Vol. XXI, No. 12, p. 886Google Scholar.
12 New York Times, February 17, 1951.
13 Ibid., February 22, 1951.
14 Chronology of International Events and Documents, VII, p. 379.