ED STATES OF AMERICA PROMOTION OF PEACE ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE Belgium. According to communiqué No. 4053 of the Information. Section of the League of Nations, the Belgian Government has deposited with the Secretariat of the League of Nations the instrument of its ratification of the protocol concluded at Geneva, September 14, 1929, concerning the revision of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice. United States. On December 9, 1929, the American Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at Berne, Mr. Jay Pierrepont Moffat, signed at Geneva on behalf of the United States: (1) The protocol of signature of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice; 1 1 (2) The protocol of accession of the United States of America to the protocol of signature of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice; 1 (3) The protocol of revision of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice.1 INTERNATIONAL LAW CONVENTION AND CODE OF INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW 2 Brazil By decree No. 18,871 of August 13, 1929, Brazil promulgated the convention on international private law, concluded at the Sixth International Conference of American States, held at Habana, February 20, 1928. Costa Rica By a despatch dated November 16, 1929, the American Minister at San José informed the Secretary of State that the President 'The text of this protocol will be printed in a separate publication which the Department has in preparation on the subject of the Permanent Court of International Justice. See Bulletin for August 1929, p. 5, and Bulletin No. 2, November 1929, p. 2. of Costa Rica had proclaimed, November 1, 1929, the convention on international private law. By proclaiming the convention, the President of Costa Rica has accepted the reservation made by the Congress of Costa Rica in ratifying the convention which provides that the reservation made by the Costa Rican delegates in signing the convention at Habana shall include not only reservations with respect to laws now in force in Costa Rica that are contrary to the provisions of the code, but also Costa Rican laws which may be approved in the future and which may be contrary to the provisions of the code. RENUNCIATION OF WAR Switzerland. On December 2, 1929, the Swiss Minister at Washington, Mr. Marc Peter, deposited in the Department of State the instrument of definitive adherence of Switzerland to the treaty for the renunciation of war. Paraguay. The instrument of definitive adherence of Paraguay to the treaty for the renunciation of war was received at the Department of State on December 4, 1929, by mail from the American Legation at Asunción, and was deposited on that date. Paraguay thus became the fifty-seventh party to the treaty. RESTRICTION OF WAR PROTOCOL CONCERNING THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE IN WARFARE OF ASPHYXIATING, POISONOUS, OR OTHER GASES, AND OF BACTERIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WARFARE 3 Persia. By note dated November 5, 1929, the French Foreign Office informed the American Embassy at Paris that on July 4, 1929, Persia adhered to the protocol signed at Geneva, June 17, 1925, prohibiting the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases, and of bacteriological methods of warfare. POLITICAL BOUNDARY TREATY BETWEEN BRAZIL AND PARAGUAY According to a despatch from the American Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro, November 27, 1929, ratifications of the boundary treaty between Brazil and Paraguay, signed May 21, 1927, were exchanged on November 25, 1929. BOUNDARY CONTROVERSY: GUATEMALA-HONDURAS 1 Delegates of the Governments of Guatemala and Honduras will meet in conference at Washington, January 15, 1930, under the auspices of the United States Government, for the purpose of discussing means for adjusting the long-standing boundary dispute between the two countries. CONVENTION REGULATING THE ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS OF THE PAN AMERICAN UNION Brazil. By decree No. 18,875 of August 20, 1929, Brazil promulgated the convention regulating the organization and functions of the Pan American Union, concluded at the Sixth International Conference of American States, held at Habana, 1928. 'See Bulletin No. 2, November 1929, p. 2. 3 HUMANITARIAN HEALTH INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION Yugoslavia. On November 10, 1929, the Minister of Yugoslavia at Paris deposited the instrument of ratification of Yugoslavia to the international sanitary convention, signed June 21, 1926. Papua and New Guinea. The provisions of the international sanitary convention have been made applicable to Papua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea as provided for in Articles 171 and 172 of the said convention. PAN AMERICAN SANITARY CONVENTION Chile. By a note dated December 4, 1929, the Ambassador of Cuba at Washington informed the Secretary of State that on November 14, 1929, the Chilean Minister at Habana deposited with the Department of State of Cuba the instrument of ratification of Chile of the Pan American sanitary code, signed at Habana, November 14, 1924, and of the final protocol, signed at Lima, Peru, October 19, 1927. 4 ECONOMIC AVIATION CONVENTION RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF AERIAL NAVIGATION By communications dated November 13, 1929, and December 4, 1929, the secretary general of the International Commission for Air Navigation informed the Secretary of State of the signatures of Poland, November 12, 1929, and of Sweden, December 3, 1929, and of the ratifications by France, November 8, 1929, and the Saar Basin Territory, November 14, 1929, of the protocol dated June 15, 1929, relative to amendments to the air convention signed at Paris, October 13, 1919. 1 Denmark, France and the Saar Basin Territory have now ratified the protocol of June 15, 1929. COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE ABOLITION OF IMPORT AND EXPORT PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS 2 On December 20, 1929, Mr. Charles E. Lyon, Commercial Attaché of the American Legation at Berne and American delegate. to the conference held at Paris to consider the action to be taken with reference to the convention for the abolition of import and export prohibitions and restrictions, signed, under full power from the President, the protocol drawn up at the conference whereby the convention will be provisionally brought into force on January 1, 1930. The convention will be put into force provisionally on January 1, 1930, among the states signing the Paris agreement, and will come into force unconditionally if, and when, eighteen ratifications as provided in the supplementary agreement to the convention, have become effective. Under Article 2 of the convention the states parties thereto undertake, subject to certain specified exceptions, to 2 'See Bulletin No. 2, November 1929, p. 7. See Bulletin No. 1, October 1929, p. 19, and Bulletin No. 2, November 1929, p. 7. 90882-30-2 5 |