공람
차관
No.MTB-019
DATE. 10181230
TO OFFICE OF THE PRESIDINT,FOREIGN MINISTER.
THE THIRD MEETING OF THE FISHERIES COMMITTEE WAS HELD AT THREE PM OCTOBER SEVENTEENTH AT JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTRY. AT THIS MEETING, COUNTERING THE JAPANESE PROPOSAL ON "ESSENTIALS OF JAPAN KOREA FISHERY AGREEMENT" PRESENTED BY JAPANESE SIDE AT PREVIOUS MEETING, OUR DELIGATION STATED TEAT TEE SAID JAPANESE PROPOSAL COULD NOT BE CONSIDERED AS A A BASIS FOR DISCUSSIONS. AT THIS STAGE THE JAPANESE SIDE ASKED US IF THE KOREAN SIDE WOULD SUBMIT A PROPOSAL. WE TOLD THE JAPANESE SIDE THAT OUR PROPOSAL REGARDING ESSENTIALS OF KOREA JAPAN FISHERY AGREEMENT SUBMITTED AT THE SECOND KOREA JAPAN CONFERENCE IN NINETEEN FIFTY THREE IS STANDING AS OUR POSITION IN THIS REGARD. THEN OUR DELEGATION REQUESTED JAPANESE SIDE TO SUBMIT ANOTHER CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSAL ON FISHERY AGREEMENT. THE JAPANESE SIDE SAID IT WOULD STUDY ON THE MATTER AND EXPRESS ITS VIEW AT NEXT MEETING WHICH WILL BE HELD ON OCTOBER TWENTY SECOND.

AMBASSADOR LIMB

TIME RECEIVED OCT 19 1958