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RUSSO-JAPANESE CONVENTION
(1) The subjects or citizens of each of the High Contracting Parties shall in accordance with the laws of the country (a) have full liberty to enter, travel and reside in the territories of the other, and (b) enjoy constant and complete protection for the safety of their lives and property.
(2) Each of the High Contracting Parties shall in accordance with the laws of the country accord in its territories to the subjects or citizens of the other, to the widest possible extent and on condition of reciprocity, the right of private ownership and the liberty to engage in commerce, navigation, industries, and other peaceful pursuits.
(3) Without prejudice to the right of each Contracting Party to regulate by its own laws the system of international trade in that country, it is understood that neither Contracting Party shall apply in discrimination against the other Party any measures of prohibition, restriction or impost which may serve to hamper the growth of the intercourse, economic or otherwise, between the two countries, it being the intention of both Parties to place the commerce, navigation and industry of each country, as far as possible, on the footing of the most favoured nation. The- Governments of the High Contracting Parties further agree that they shall enter into negotiations, from time to time as circumstances may require, for the conclu- sion of special arrangements relative to commerce and navigation to adjust and to promote economic relations between the two countries,
ARTICLE V
The High Contracting Parties solemnly affirm their desire and intention to live in peace and amity with each other, scrupulously to respect the undoubted right of a State to order its own life within its own jursidiction in its own way, to refrain and restrain all persons in any governmental service for them, and all organisations in receipt of any financial assistance from them, from any act overt or covert liable in any way whatever_to_endanger the order and security in any part of the territories of Japan or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It is further agreed that neither Contracting Party shall permit the presence in the territories under its jurisdication-(a) of organisations or groups pretending to be the Government for any part of the territories of the other Party, or (b) of alien subject or citizens who may be found to be actually carrying on political activities for such organisations or groups.
ARTICLE VI
In the interest of promoting economic relations between the two countries, and taking into consideration the needs of Japan with regard to natural resources, the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is willing to grant to Japan- ese subjects, companies and associations, concessions for the exploitation of minerals, forests and other natural resources in all the territories of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
ARTICLE VII
The present convention shall be ratified.
Such ratification by each of the High Contracting Parties shall, with as little delay as possible, be communicated, through its diplomatic representative at Peking,. to the Government of the other Party, and from the date of the later of such com- munications this Convention shall come into full force.
The formal exchange of the ratifications shall take place at Peking as soon as- possible.
In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention in duplicate in the English language and have affixed thereto their seals. Done at Peking, this Twentieth day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-five.
[L.S.] K. YOSHIZAWA,
[L.S.] L. KARAKHAN.