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 1840 Recommend a tion for a treaty. Measures to meet threats or acts of ag- gression. Regional arrange- ment. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [60 STAT. PART II The Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace RECOMMENDS: That for the purpose of meeting threats or acts of aggression against any American Republic following the establishment of peace, the Governments of the American Republics consider the conclusion, in accordance with their constitutional processes, of a treaty estab- lishing procedures whereby such threats or acts may be met by the use, by all or some of the signatories of said treaty, of any one or more of the following measures: recall of chiefs of diplomatic missions; breaking of diplomatic relations; breaking of consular relations; breaking of postal, telegraphic, telephonic, radio-telephonic relations; interruption of economic, commercial and financial relations; use of armed force to prevent or repel aggression. PART III The above Declaration and Recommendation constitute a regional arrangement for dealing with such matters relating to the maintenance of international peace and security as are appropriate for regional action in this Hemisphere. The said arrangement, and the pertinent activities and procedures, shall be consistent with the purposes and principles of the general international organization, when established. This agreement shall be known as the "ACT OF CHAPULTEPEC." (Approved at the plenary session of March 6, 1946) In testimony whereof, the Delegates of the American Republics participating in the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace, sign the present Final Act, in the Spanish language, at the City of Mexico on the eighth day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-five. Depository. The original shall be deposited by the General Secretariat in the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, which shall transmit certified copies to the Governments of the American Repub- lics, to the Pan American Union, to the General Secretariat of the League of Nations, to the International Labor Office, to the Pan American Sanitary Bureau and to the Inter-American Union of the Caribbean. Translations. The Pan American Union shall prepare the translations of this Act into the other official languages of the Conference. Ante, p. 1835. [For signatories to Final Act see the Spanish text.] I hereby certify that the foregoing is a faithful English translation of the Spanish text of the Final Act of the Inter-American Conference on the Problems of War and Peace, signed at Mexico City on March 8, 1945. WASBINGTON, D. C., April 0S,1945 PEDRO DE ALBA Secretary of the Governing Board of the Pan American Union

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