REPORTS OF THE COMMISSIONS



  The Ukrainian and the Polish Delegations therefore reserve the
right to express their views on this subject at the Plenary Conference
and request that the report of the Commission should record the views
of the Ukrainian and Polish Delegations.
  This proposal was also supported by the U.S.S.R. Delegation.
  (c) Yugoslav Delegation
  The Yugoslav Delegation had proposed that the following be added
at the end of Article 14:
  "as well as the right of education in the mother tongue."
  This proposal was rejected with 9 votes against 5 and 6 abstentions.
                            Motivation
  The proposal enumerates by way of example all that should be con-
sidered as joquissance des droits de l'homime. It does so by enumerating
the rights which were trampled upon by authoritarian regimes, and
which should, above all, be protected.
  Experience, including the one acquired under the pre-Fascist
Italian Governments, which not only failed to give Slovenes schools in
their mother-tongue but closed even those which were already in exist-
ence, makes it necessary that the right of minorities, to have schools
in their mother-tongue should expressly be provided for in the Peace
Treaty with Italy.
Article 16
  (a) U.S.S.R. Delegation
  The U.S.S.R. Delegation, in expansion of decisions taken by the
Council of Foreign Ministers on July 3, 1946, considers that the fol-
lowing provisions should be made in the Statute of the Free Territory
of Trieste:
  (1) The Free Territory of Trieste shall be neutral and demilitarized.
  (2) All foreign troops which are on the territory of the Free Ter-
ritory of Trieste must be withdrawn within 30 days of the entry into
force of the Peace Treaty with Italy.
  (3) The international regime of the Port of Trieste must guarantee
for all international trade the use of the port and transit facilities of
Trieste on conditions of parity, free zones being allocated to the neigh-
bouring states of Yugoslavia and Italy.
  (4) In order to provide the most favourable conditions for the
economic development of the Free Territory of Trieste, provision shall
be made for economic collaboration between the Free Territory and
Yugoslavia (customs union, a joint administration of the railways of
the Free Territory of Trieste, and so on).
  (5) The government shall be responsible for the safeguarding of
the observance of the statute of the Free Territory,
  (6) Legislative power shall be vested in the National Assembly
which shall be elected by universal, equal, direct and secret vote.
  (7) Executive power shall be vested in the Government of the Free



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