§ Mr. MANDERasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what conventions are referred to in line 13 of Section 17 of his Report on the 58th Session of the Council of the League of Nations; and whether these have now been ratified?
Mr. A. HENDERSONThe conventions referred to in Section 17 of my Report on the 58th Session of the Council of the League of Nations are as follow:
- (a) Convention for the suppression of the international trade in arms and ammunition and in implements of war, of 17th June, 1925.
- (b) Protocol for the prohibition of the use in war of asphyxiating poisonous and other gases and of bacteriological methods of warfare, of 17th June, 1925.
- (c) Convention on the execution of foreign arbitral awards, of 26th September, 1927.
- (d) International convention relating to economic statistics, of 14th December, 1928.
- (e) International convention for the suppression of counterfeiting currency, of 20th April, 1929.
- (f) Protocol concerning the revision of the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, of 14th September, 1929, and
- (g) Protocol relating to the accession of the United States of America to the protocol of signature of the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, of 14th September, 1929.
All these international agreements have now been ratified, with the exception of those relating to economic statistics, counterfeiting currency and foreign arbitral awards. Ratification of these three instruments may be expected shortly.