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III. With a view to the first Conference the Preparatory Committee prepared a draft programse which was circulated to the Governments invited to attend the Conference.
The Governments
evere requested to make any observations they might think useful with regard to the programno. Ko objections having been received by the time the Committee made its report, the Freparatory Jommittee during ite session at Joners in July 1024 adopted the final text of the programme in the following form:-
Officers of the
1. Election of President and Vife-resident; Conference; and Commissions. Adoption of the Rules of Frocedure;
etc.. eto.
2.
(a) Examination and consideration of the present situation
in regard to the application by the lovers represented, of Part II
of the International Opium Convention of 112 in their Far Eastern territories and of the difficulties which have been encountered
in giving effect to Part II;
(b) Consideration of the measures which can be te ken to oarry out more effectively the policy embodied in Part II of gradually suppressing the use of opium for smoking, with special reference to the suggestions put forward for consideration in the second resolution adopted by the Opium Advisory Committee of the
and League of Nations at its meeting in May 1923 (Annex VII);
(c) Preparation of a convention to embody the measures which may be agreed upon by the Conferebce.
3.
Consideration (a) of the present situation in China with
regard to the production of opium in the neighbouring territories; and (b) of the measures which might be suggested to the Government
of the Chinese Republic for bringing about a suppression of the illegal production and use of opium in China.