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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. PROTOCOL THE Governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the French Republic, hereinafter referred to as "the Allied Governments con- cerned," on the one hand, and the Government of Italy, on the other, have, through the undersigned duly empowered representatives, agreed as follows:- Italianshae. 1. The Allied Governments concerned agree that Italy should receive a proportional share of the gold distributed pursuant to Part III of the Agreement on Reparations from Germany, on the establish- ment of an Inter-Allied Reparations Agency and on the Restitution of alstat.,Pt.3p.80. Monetary Gold signed at Paris on 14th January, 1946, on the same basis as the countries signatory to the said Agreement to the extent that Italy can establish that a definite amount of monetary gold belonging to it was looted by Germany, or, at any time after 3rd September, 1943, was wrongfully removed into German territory. 2. Italy adheres to the arrangement for the restitution of monetary gold set forth in Part III of the afore-mentioned Agreement and declares that the portion of the monetary gold accruing to it under the Agreement is accepted in full satisfaction of all Italian claims against Germany for restitution of monetary gold. 3. Italy accepts the arrangements which have been or will be made by the Allied Governments concerned for the implementation of the aforesaid arrangement. olaims deposit. 4. (a) Pending the definitive settlement of such claims as may be made pursuant to Article 75, paragraph 8, of the Peace Treaty with e6sLPt.2 .p.o140. Italy within six months of the coming into force of the Treaty, the Italian Government agrees to set aside out of its share as stipulated above, as a guarantee for the execution of the said provisions of the Treaty, and to leave on deposit with the Allied Governments con- cerned, an amount of gold approximately equal to the claims which it is now known will be made against Italy under the said provisions, viz., 14,422 kilograms of fine gold in respect of the claim of France and 8,857 kilograms of fine gold in respect of the claim of Yugoslavia. (b) The amount provided for in sub-paragraph (a) shall be set aside in full out of any distribution made to Italy before any gold is withdrawn by Italy for its own use. 3730

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