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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [60 STAT. be included among the organizations which form the Pan American Union, with the same prerogatives and position that have been accorded to other inter-American institutions of a permanent or emergency character that have functioned within or without the Pan American Union. 10. The draft charter shall provide for the strengthening of the inter-American system on the bases of this resolution and by the creation of new agencies or the elimination or adaptation of existing agencies, specifying and coordinating their functions as among them- selves and with the world organization. inter-American peace The draft shall take into account the need of accelerating the structure. consolidation and extension of existing inter-American peace instru- ments and the simplification and improvement of the inter-American peace structure, and to this end the Governing Board of the Pan American Union shall utilize the services of the Inter-American Juridical Committee. In addition, the draft shall provide for the consolidation and simplification of all other inter-American instru- ments so that they may be more effective. Proposanls. 11. The American Governments shall send to the Governing Board Time limitation. of the Pan American Union prior to September 1, 1945, all their proposals relating to the preceding articles. pinancial suport of 12. The draft charter shall also provide for the establishment of an Pan American Union. equitable system for the financial support of the Pan American Union and of all its related agencies. (Approved at the plenary session of March 6, 1945) 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 tho 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. The Pan American Union shall prepare the translations of this Act into the other official languages of the Conference. Ante, p. 1852. [For signatories to the 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. WASHINGTON, D. C ., April 30, 1945 PEDRO DE ALBA Secretary of the Governing Board of the Pan American Union 1858

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