The Ninth International Conference of American States, held at Bogotá, Colombia, March 30–May 2, 1948 1

1. For additional documentation, and analytical and summary accounts of the Conference, see Ninth International Conference of American States, Bogotá, Colombia, March 30–May 2, 1948: Report of the Delegation of the United States of America with Related Documents (Department of State Publication No. 8262, November 1948) hereinafter cited as USDel Report; Novena Conferencia International Americana, Bogotá, Marzo 30 de 1948: Actas y Documentos, vols. i–vii (Bogotá, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, 1954); “Report on the Ninth International Conference of American States”, by Alberto Lleras, Secretary General of the Organization of American States, vol. i, No. 1, pp. 1 ff. (Washington, Pan American Union, 1949); and Charter of the Organization of American States, signed at Bogotá April 30, 1948, Department of State Treaties and Other International Acts Series 2361, in 2 UST 2394, pp. 2418–2420.