DANUBE COMMITTEE HOLDS TENTH SESSION AT BUDAPEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700200112-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2011
• Sequence Number: 112
• Publication Date: September 27, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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DANUBE COMMITTEE HOLDS TENTH SESSION AT BUDAPEST
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Budapest, 9 Jun 1954
The tenth session of the Danube Committee opened at Budapest on 8 June
1954. The committee in which six countries (the USSR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia,
Rumania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia) are represented, recently transferred its
headquarters to Budapest.
The session was opened by the president of the Danube Committee, Endre
Sik. He stated that in the course of its 4 years of work the committee had
established the fundamental principles which currently govern Danu-
tion, river regulation, and sanitary and customs control. be naviga
It has prepared
a uniform navigation channel marking system, coordinated the ' ydrometeor_
ologicalzervices of the member countries, and published several navigation..,
maps and pilots' handbooks.
The representatives of member countries thereafter unanimously adopted
the following six-point agenda for the tenth session:
1. Report of the director of the Danube Committee on the fulfillment
of the 1 January to 1 June 1954 plan and expansion of the committee's
organization.
2. Report on the implementation of the 1953 and the 1 January to
1 June 1954 budgets.
3? Reports of representatives of member countries on the installation
of uniform navigational channel markers.
4. Approval of the by-laws regulating the activities of the secretariat
and general management of the committee.
5. Miscellaneous regulations.
6. Preliminary agenda for the 11th session of the Danube Committee.
Reports were read by K. Halachov, director of the Danube Committee,
on the first point and by Ida Avramescu on the second point of the agenda.
At the end of the session V. A. Brikin, delegate of the USSR, thanked
the Hungarian government for the, courtesy which it extended to the committee.
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