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PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES

  • Protocol signed at The Hague June 14, 1907[1]
  • Entered into force June 14, 1907
  • Execution of provisions: A procès-verbal of adhesion was opened at The Hague on June 15, 1907,[2] by the Netherlands Minister of Foreign Affairs to record adherences to the convention of July 29, 1899,[3] for the pacific settlement of international disputes

Department of State files; enclosure to note no. 40 of September 2, 1907, from the Netherlands Legation at Washington

[TRANSLATION]

Protocol

The Powers which have ratified the Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes, signed at The Hague on July 29, 1899,[3] desiring to enable the States that were not represented at the First Peace Conference and were invited to the Second to adhere to the aforesaid Convention, the undersigned delegates or diplomatic representatives of the above-mentioned Powers, viz.:

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Spain, the United States of America, the United States of Mexico, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, Montenegro, Norway, the Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Servia, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey, duly authorized to that effect, have agreed that

there shall be opened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, a procès-verbal of adhesions, that shall serve to receive and record the said adhesions, which shall immediately go into effect. In witness whereof the present protocol was drawn up, in a single copy, which shall remain in deposit


  1. Concluded pursuant to protocol of Jan. 15, 1902, ante, p. 331.
  2. For text, see James Brown Scott, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (Washington, 1915), p. xxx. The following American republics subsequently adhered to the 1899 convention: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
  3. 3.0 3.1 TS 392, ante, p. 230.
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