DECLARATION OF LIBERATED EUROPE

The following declaration has been approved: 

The Premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom and the President of the United
States of America have consulted with each other in the common
interests of the people of their countries and those of liberated
Europe. They jointly declare their mutual agreement to concert during
the temporary period of instability in liberated Europe the policies of
their three Governments in assisting the peoples liberated from the
domination of Nazi Germany and the peoples of the former Axis
satellite states of Europe to solve by democratic means their pressing
political and economic problems. 

The establishment of order in Europe and the rebuilding of national
economic life must be achieved by processes which will enable the
liberated peoples to destroy the last vestiges of nazism and fascism
and to create democratic institutions of their own choice. This is a
principle of the Atlantic Charter - the right of all people to choose the
form of government under which they will live - the restoration of
sovereign rights and self-government to those peoples who have been
forcibly deprived to them by the aggressor nations. 

To foster the conditions in which the liberated people may exercise
these rights, the three governments will jointly assist the people in any
European liberated state or former Axis state in Europe where, in
their judgment conditions require, 

(a) to establish conditions of internal peace; 
(b) to carry out emergency relief measures for the relief of
distressed peoples; 
(c) to form interim governmental authorities broadly
representative of all democratic elements in the population and
pledged to the earliest possible establishment through free
elections of Governments responsive to the will of the people;
and 
(d) to facilitate where necessary the holding of such elections. 

The three Governments will consult the other United Nations and
provisional authorities or other Governments in Europe when matters
of direct interest to them are under consideration. 

When, in the opinion of the three Governments, conditions in any
European liberated state or former Axis satellite in Europe make such
action necessary, they will immediately consult together on the
measure necessary to discharge the joint responsibilities set forth in
this declaration. 

By this declaration we reaffirm our faith in the principles of the
Atlantic Charter, our pledge in the Declaration by the United Nations
and our determination to build in cooperation with other peace-loving
nations world order, under law, dedicated to peace, security, freedom
and general well-being of all mankind. 

In issuing this declaration, the three powers express the hope that the
Provisional Government of the French Republic may be associated
with them in the procedure suggested.