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their ratification with the shortest possible dolay. (Resol. 2).
unanimously
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With regard to the system of import certificates
approved by the Assonbly in 1921 and again recommanded in 1922
the Advisory Committee regrets that a number of states, Members
of the League and Parties to the Opium Conventions, have not yet
signified their adoption of this system. (x). The Fifth Committee
last year fully adopted the view of the Ldvisory Committee that
the import certificate system is the most effective method so far
suggested by which the international obligations of the Convention
can be carried out by xe Statas, parties to it. It aalised on
the other hand the very serious difficulties arising from the fact
that several importing as well as exporting countries are still
standing outside this system, and therefore submitted to the
Assembly a proposal to the effect that "the Assembly inclines to
the view" that Governments, Parties to tno Opium Convention should
be asked to agree not to issue licencos for the import of opium
etc., from any country which has not yet ratified and put into
force the Convention and adopted also the system of import
certificates. Acknowledging, however, "the complicated and
technical character of the issues involved" the Fifth Committee
proposed "that the matter should be examined in detail by the
Advisory Committee" before any dofinite action was taken.
This special question was the subject laid before the Advisory
Committee at its extraordinary meeting in January this year,
During the discussions of the .dvisory Committee the various
complications which it was forescen might result from the adoption
of the above proposal wore duly omphasisod; at the same time it
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Amongst such States are:- France, Portugal, Roumania, Serb-Croat-Slovenia.