Useful notes: Extracts from the Yalta Protocol - the agreements signed by Britain, the USA and the USSR at the Yalta Conference February 1945

(Catalogue ref: FO 371/50838)

This extract comes from the Yalta Protocol. The Protocol was an agreement which all of the Big Three signed up to. In the end the Big Three reached agreements on 14 important issues. These were:

• The setting up of the United Nations Organisation
• Declaration on Liberated Europe
• Dividing Germany into occupied zones
• Creating a French zone of occupation of Germany
• Reparations to be paid by Germany
• Tracking down war criminals
• The borders and government of Poland
• The borders and government of Yugoslavia
• Frontier between Italy, Austria and Yugoslavia
• Relations between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria
• Borders between Greece, Bulgaria and Romania
• The future of Persia (modern day Iran)
• Future meetings of the Foreign Minister of the Big Three
• Territorial issues concerning Turkey