§ 4. Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGEasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Foreign Office, either independently or in conjunct on with other Powers, has taken any steps to induce Turkey and Persia to ratify the Opium Conventions; and, if not, whether it will do so, having in view how far the success of the anti-drug campaign depends upon united international action?
Mr. A. HENDERSONHis Majesty's representatives in Turkey have from time to time urged upon the Turkish Government the desirability of their acceding to the Opium Conventions, and the question of Persia's attitude to these Conventions has been the subject of discussion at the Council of the League of Nations, of which Persia is a member. Neither the Turkish nor the Persian Government can be in any doubt as to the importance which is attached by His Majesty's Government, as by other parties to the Opium Conventions, to their undertaking at an early date the obligations of these instruments.