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Volume #18 - 28. | |||
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CHAPTER I CONDUCT OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS | |||
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PART
4 DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR REPRESENTATION | |||
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Extract from Cabinet Conclusions | |||
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[Ottawa],
March 18th, 1952 | ||
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. . . OF CANADIAN CHARGÉ D'AFFAIRES 6. The Secretary of State for External Affairs pointed out that the Canadian Liaison Mission in Tokyo was accredited to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. With the coming into force of the Japanese Peace Treaty about April 1st, 1952, the S.C.A.P. organization would be disbanded. The relatively long period in which Canada had had diplomatic relations with Japan, the importance of Japan's position in the Far East and a Japanese desire to establish an embassy in Canada suggested that the Canadian post-treaty office in Tokyo should be an embassy. It also seemed reasonable that the present head of the Liaison Mission be nominated as Chargé d'Affaires a.i., pending appointment of an Ambassador. An explanatory memorandum had been circulated. (Minister's memorandum, March 13, 1952 - Cab. Doc. 93-52)? 7. The Cabinet approved the recommendations of the Secretary of State for External Affairs and agreed that Royal approval be sought for an exchange of embassies with Japan and that, on receipt of such approval, the Minister inform the Japanese government that the government desired to establish an embassy in Tokyo after the coming into force of the Japanese Peace Treaty, was agreeable to establishment of a Japanese embassy in Ottawa and nominated the present Head of the Canadian Liaison Mission in Tokyo as Chargé d'Affaires a.i. of the Canadian Embassy.19
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