§ 54. Mr. J. Johnsonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will take steps to convene a meeting of the signatories of the Brussels Anti-Slavery Convention of 1890 for the purpose of combating the traffic in slaves from Africa to the Middle East.
§ Mr. Dodds-ParkerNo. Her Majesty's Government doubt whether such a meeting would assist in achieving the object desired. The signatories of the Brussels Act of 1890 included the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires and Czarist Russia whose successors are difficult to determine. Further, certain States which were signatories of the Brussels Act are known to consider that that Act is no longer in force.