No. 478 NAI DFA/5/305/156
Circular from Seán Murphy to all Missions
'Recognition of States'
(305/149) (D.C. Circular No. 6/56)
Dublin, 14 November 1956
- Missions are hereby advised that, consequent upon the admission of Ireland to the United Nations, the following Arab and Asian States, from which for various reasons de jure recognition is still withheld, are recognised de facto:-
Cambodia
Jordan
Korea (recognition confined to Government functioning in South Korea)
Laos
Libya
Morocco
Sudan
Tunisia
Vietnam (recognition confined to Government functioning in South Vietnam) - Accordingly, Missions may henceforth enter into normal relations with representatives of the Governments of the above-mentioned States as and when the occasion arises.
- For convenience of reference the position with regard to States (apart from Korea and Vietnam), which are at present wholly or partly under Communist control, is set out below.
China Recognition has not been withdrawn from the so-called Nationalist Government now functioning in Formosa. Accordingly, we continue to recognise that Government as the Government of the Republic of China. Germany The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany is recognised as the only Government in Germany. Missions should be particularly careful to avoid any contact with representatives of the so-called ‘German Democratic Republic’. Poland Recognition is still accorded to the Polish Government-in-exile as the lawful Government of Poland as constituted before the Second World War. USSR Ireland recognises de jure the Government of the USSR. We do not, however, recognise the incorporation in the territory of the USSR of the three Baltic States – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
Albania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Romania
Yugoslavia
} De jure recognition is
accorded to the
Governments of all these
States. - The Note, with enclosure, circulated to the Missions on the 10th November, 1955,1 dealing inter alia with Ireland’s position in regard to the recognition of certain States, is hereby withdrawn.