210. Editorial Note
Under Secretary of State Dillon arrived in Paris on December 11 to attend a ministerial meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. At the end of the December 13 meeting, a communiqué was issued announcing the participants’ intention to sign a convention establishing an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which would replace the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. For text of the communiqué, which also outlined the new organization’s objectives, see American Foreign Policy: Current Documents, 1960, pages 333–335.
The convention was signed on December 14; Dillon signed for the United States. Text of the convention is ibid., 1961, pages 492–501. For text of Dillon’s statement before signing, see Department of State Bulletin, January 2, 1961, pages 9–11.