US-UK Joint Draft
Developments among the Allied Powers
May 3, 1951
US-UK Joint Draft
Based on their consultations, the US and the UK agreed to add “three islands: Quelpart, Port Hamilton and Dagelet” as part of Korean territory to the original US draft, which simply described territory that Japan would renounce. The US and the UK prepared a joint draft on May 3, 1951, and revised it in June.
US/UK
The provision on the renunciation of Korea was finalized by adding the three islands to the US draft.
US-UK Joint Draft
US-UK Joint Draft (citation)
CHAPTER II. -TERRITORY
Article 2.
Japan renounces all rights, titles and claims to Korea (including Quelpart, Port Hamilton and Dagelet), Formosa and the Pescadores...
Anglo-American Meetings on Japanese Peace Treaty
At the 7th meeting of the US-UK consultations held intensively in Washington, DC, from April 25 to May 4, 1951, both delegations agreed that it would be preferable “to specify only the territory over which Japan was renouncing sovereignty,” and confirmed that “the insertion of the three islands: Quelpart, Port Hamilton and Dagelet” was required for the provision on the renunciation of Korea in the US draft.
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