Extract from the minutes of the Conference on the establishment of a Council of Europe, held at St James’s Palace in London from 3 to 5 May 1949, concerning the issue of voting in the Committee of Ministers.

View of the conference room at the inaugural meeting, in August 1949, of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe held in the Strasbourg Town Hall.

In August 1949, Count Carlo Sforza chairs the Italian delegation at the inaugural meeting of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers held in the Strasbourg Town Hall.

On 2 August 1951, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopts its first Rules of procedure.

Le 15 mai 1954, le chancelier allemand Konrad Adenauer, assis entre Walter Hallstein, Secrétaire d'État aux Affaires étrangères de la République fédérale d'Allemagne (à sa droite), et Léon Marshal, Secrétaire général du Conseil de l'Europe, préside une réunion du Comité des ministres du Conseil de l'Europe.

Suite à la réunion du Comité des ministres du 15 mai 1954, son président en exercice Konrad Adenauer en fait rapport à l'Assemblée consultative.

This excerpt from the special message of the Committee of Ministers, dated 20 May 1954, transmitting to the Consultative Assembly the Programme of Work of the Council of Europe, deals with the respective roles of the Assembly and the Committee as well as the relations between these two organs within the organisation.

Les délégués agissent au nom des ministres des Affaires étrangères dans l'intervalle des sessions du Comité.