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APPENDIX 2 ALLIED AGREEMENTS CONCERNING JAPAN (a) THE CAIRO CONFERENCE President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, and Prime Minister Churchill, together with their respective military and diplomatic advisers, completed a conference in North Africa. The following general statement was issued Ist December, 1943 The several military missions have agreed upon future military operations against Japan. The three great Allies expressed their resolve to bring unrelenting pressure against their brutal enemy by sea, land and air. This pressure is already rising. The three great Allies are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet no gain for themselves and have no thought of territorial expansion. It is their purpose that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the first World War in 1914, and that all the territories that Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China. Japan will also be expelled from all other ter-ritories which she has taken by violence and greed. The aforesaid three great Powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are determined that in due course Korea shall become free and independent. With these objectives in view, the three Allies, in harmony with those of the United Nations at war with Japan, will continue to persevere in the serious and prolonged operations necessary to procure the unconditional surrender of Japan. (b) THE YALTA AGREEMENT Text of the Secret Agreement made at Yalta. 11th February, 1945 (made public on 12th February, 1946). The leaders of the three Great Powers —the Soviet Union, the United States of America and Great Britain —have agreed that in two or three months after Germany has surrendered and the war in Europe has terminated the Soviet Union shall enter into the war against Japan on the side of the Allies, on condition that—1. The status quo in Outer-Mongolia. (The Mongolian People's Republic) shall be preserved;