The Moscow Declarations were four declarations signed during the Moscow Conference on October 30, 1943. The declarations may be distinguished from the Communique that was issued following the Moscow Conference of 1945. They were signed by the foreign secretaries of the Governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and Nationalist China. Four declarations were signed at the conference: The Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security, the Declaration on Italy, the Declaration on Austria, and the Declarations on Atrocities.
In the section Joint Four-Nation Declaration, the governments of the United States of America, United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and Nationalist China, in accordance with the declaration by the United Nations of January, 1942, and subsequent declarations, to continue hostilities against those Axis powers with which they respectively are at war until such powers have laid down their arms on the basis of unconditional surrender. They also recognize the necessity of establishing at the earliest practicable date a general international organization (the United Nations), based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace-loving states, and open to membership by all such states, large and small, for the maintenance of international peace and security.
In the Declaration on Italy, the foreign secretaries of the US, UK and USSR declared that fascism and its influence should be completely destroyed and that the Italian people should be given every opportunity to establish governmental and other institutions based on democratic principles.
In the Declaration on Austria, the Foreign Secretaries of US, UK and USSR declared that the annexation (Anschluss) of Austria by Germany was null and void. It called for the establishment of a free Austria after the victory over Nazi Germany.