Committees would be formed. in the near future, the Foreign Minster stated, to discuss questions of demarcating the Manchoukuo-Soviet and Manchoukuo-Outer Mon-elian border and to settle disputes.
formal report on the conclusion of the fishery modus vivendi on Dec lamber 31 was given to the Cabinet.
"The political situation in the country was not touched upon at the Cabinet the members acting in ace th their decision to post one exhaustive aliseussions until the [attitudes of political parties has been clarified. "Gen. Nobuyuki Abe, Pre-Imier, and all other Ministers with the exception of Mr.- Ryularo Nagai, Minister of Communications, attended the' session at the Premier's official residence at 10.25 o'clock—Domel, Border Committees to Be Constituted Tokyo, Jan. 4.
'A Japanese proposal to create two committees to prevent and settle Aisputes arising during deliber fon the demarcation of the Outer Mongolia-Manchoukuo border has been provisionally agreed to by the Soviet Government, the Bureau of Information of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced here today.
The committees will be named the Border Demareation Conimittec and Border Dispute Prevention and Settle ment Committee.
Formation of the committees was proposed by. Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mf. Constantin Smetanin, Soviet Ambassador to Japan, and by Mr. Shigenori Togo, Japanese Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Mf. Viacheslay Molotov, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, on November 15. Of, Solomon A. Lozovsky, Soviet Vice Commissar, announced on December 30 that the Japanese proposal was acceptable provided a few revisions and additions were made—Domel.
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