Ca-operation Panama City, Sept. 30.
Two declarations establishing a neutral seas zone around the American continent and voicing the 21 American republics' decision to main~ tain close economic ce-operation with each other, were approved today at sessions of the Pan-American Conference.
Delegates of 20 of the 21 republics, gathered in sub-committee debates, approved the Panama Declaration which adopts proposals made by the United States for the creation of a neutral zone along American coasts, The demarcation line of the zone is to stretch from the Canadian-American frontier on the east coast, off the Bermudas and Cuba, around Cape Horn and passing west of the Gala-pages Archipelago in the Pacific. On an average, the projected zone is to be 300 miles wide and is to be patrolled by naval forces of one or several' republics, either separately or colpectively. Chile was the only nation to refuse an approving vote on the proposal.
The other declaration, on economic ce-operation, was approved unanimously at a secret plenary session, It is drafted in ten articles and sums up 27 projects which bear upon the creation of a permanent consulting committee of 21 American delegates.
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