PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES (INTER-AMERICAN)
- Protocol signed at México January 15, 1902
- Entered into force January 15, 1902
- Execution of provisions: A protocol enabling states not parties to the 1899 convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes[1] to adhere to that convention was signed at The Hague June 14, 1907;[2] an inter-American treaty on compulsory arbitration, pursuant to article 4, was signed at México January 29, 1902[3]
Department of State files; enclosure to note no. 264 of May 23, 1902, from the Mexican Embassy at Washington
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Protocol of Adherence to the Conventions of The Hague
Whereas: The Delegates to the International Conference of the American States, believing that public sentiment in the Republics represented by them is constantly growing in the direction of heartily favoring the widest application of the principles of arbitration; that the American Republics controlled alike by the principles and responsibilities of popular government and bound together by increasing mutual interests, can, by their own actions, maintain peace in the Continent, and that permanent peace between them will be the forerunner and harbinger of their national development and of the happiness and commercial greatness of their peoples;
They have, therefore, agreed upon the following
- ↑ TS 392, ante, p. 230.
- ↑ Post, p. 575.
- ↑ For text, see Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Communication from the Secretary of State, Submitting the Report, With Accompanying Papers, of the Delegates of the United States to the Second International Conference of American States, Held at the City of Mexico from October 22, 1901, to January 22, 1902 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902), p. 40; S. Doc. 330, 57th Cong., 1st sess. The United States did not become a party.
