HC Deb 03 December 1934 vol 295 cc1244-7W
Mr. MANDER

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the present position of various Governments with regard to the signature and ratification

GENERAL CONVENTION TO IMPROVE THE MEANS OF PREVENTING WAR.*
(Geneva, September 26th, 1931.)
Not in Force.
Ratifications or definitive Accessions. Signatures or Accessions not yet Perfected by Ratification. The Convention is open to Accession by:
The Netherlands (including the Netherlands Indies, Surinam and Curaçao) (May 30th, 1933). Albania. Abyssinia.
Austria. Afghanistan.
Belgium. Union of South Africa.
Bulgaria. United States of America.
Norway (July 18th, 1932). Colombia. Sa'udi Arabia.
Peru (March 29th, 1932). Czechoslovakia. Argentine Republic.
Denmark. Australia.
France. Ratification cannot take place until it has been possible for the Government of the Republic to ascertain that the regulations provided for in Article 4, and which must be elaborated in order to enter into force at the same time as the Convention, ensure the guarantees of control which are deemed necessary by the French Government. Bolivia.
Brazil.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Canada.
Chile.
China.
Costa Rica.
Cuba
Dominican Republic.
Germany. Ecuador.
Greece. Egypt.
Lithuania. Estonia.
Luxemburg. Finland.
Panama. This signature does not affect in any way the provisions of the treaties of conciliation and arbitration concluded up to this date by the Republic of Panama with other Powers. Guatemala.
Haiti.
Honduras.
Hungary.
India.
Iraq.
Portugal. Irish Free State.
Siam. Italy.
Spain. Japan.
Sweden. Latvia.
Switzerland. Liberia.
Uruguay. Mexico.
New Zealand.
Nicaragua.
Paraguay.
Persia.
Poland.
Roumania.
Salvador.
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Turkey.
Venezuela.
Yugoslavia.
* A Procès-verbal shall be drawn up by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations as soon as ratifications or accessions on behalf of ten Members of the League of Nations or non-member States have been deposited (Article 13, paragraph 1).
The present Convention shall be registered by the Secretary-General of the League of Nations 90 days after the date of the procès-verbal mentioned in Article 13. It will then enter into force as regards all Members of the League of Nations or non-member States on whose behalf ratifications or accessions have been deposited on the date of the procès-verbal (Article 14, paragraph 1).

of the Convention for Improving the Means for Preventing War and the Convention on Financial Assistance to States Victims of Aggression?

Sir J. SIMON

The position is shown in the following tables:

CONVENTION ON FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.*
(Geneva, October 2nd, 1930.)
Not in Force.
Ratifications or definitive Accessions. Signatures or Accessions not yet perfected by Ratification. The Convention is open to Accession by:
Denmark (May 15th, 1931). Abyssinia. Union of South Africa.
Finland (July 30th, 1931) Albania. Argentine Republic.
Persia (September 28th, 1932). Austria. (Subject to the reservation that this signature shall only take effect when an agreement with the States concerned has removed the obstacles which still stand in the way of the application of the Convention as regards Austria—i.e., the supervision of credit exercised by the Committee of Control and the general lien belonging to the States which have granted reconstructive credits.) Canada.
Chile.
China.
Colombia.
Dominican Republic.
Guatemala.
Haiti.
Honduras.
Hungary.
India.
Iraq.
Japan.
Belgium. Liberia.
Bolivia. Luxemburg.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland and all parts of the British Empire which are not separate Members of the League of Nations. Mexico.
New Zealand.
Nicaragua.
Panama.
Australia. Paraguay.
Irish Free State. Salvador.
Bulgaria. Siam.
Cuba. Switzerland.
Czechoslovakia. Turkey.
Estonia. Uruguay.
France. Venezuela
Germany.
Greece.
Italy.
Latvia.
Lithuania.
The Netherlands, including Netherlands Indies, Surinam and Curaçao.
Norway.
Peru.
Poland.
Portugal.
Roumania.
Spain.
Sweden. In virtue of the constitutional laws of Sweden loan operations are entrusted to a special authority (Riksgäldkontoret) appointed by Parliament.
Yugoslavia.
* The present Convention shall not come into force until in has received ratifications or accessions resulting in causing a sum of not less than 50 million gold francs, for the annual service of loans, to be covered by ordinary guarantees and also by the special guarantees of not less than three Governments. It shall enter into force 90 days after the date on which the conditions provided above are satisfied and subject to the provisions of Article 35.