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Party the rights, privileges and immunities enjoyed by consular officers under modern international usage.
Article 8(i) The High Contracting Parties will enter into negotiations for the conclusion of a comprehensive modern treaty or treaties of friendship, commerce navigation and consular rights upon the request of either of them or in any case within six months after the cessation of the hostilities in the war against the common enemies in which they are both now engaged. The treaty or treaties to be thus negotiated will be based upon the principles of international law and practice as reflected in modern international procedure and in the modern treaties which each of the High Contracting Parties have respectively concluded with other Powers in recent years.
(11) Pending the conclusion of the comprehensive treaty or treaties referred to in the preceding paragraph, if any questions affecting the rights in the territory of the Republic of China of the nationals or companies of His Majesty the King, or of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom or of the Government of India, should arise in future and if these questions are not covered by the present Treaty and exchange of notes or by the provisions of the existing treaties, conventions and agreements between the High Contracting Parties which are not abrogated by or inconsistent with the present Treaty and exchange of notes, such questions shall be discussed by representatives of the High Contracting Parties and shall be decided in accordance with the generally accepted principles of international law and with modern international practice.
Article 9. The present Treaty shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification shall be exchanged at Chungking as soon as possible. The Treaty shall come into force on the day of the exchange of ratifications
In witness where of the above mentioned plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and affixed the re to their seals.
Done at Chungking this ... day of J194 in duplicate in English and Chinese, both texts being equally authentic.
Corrispering I Inday of 1* Mint I 32 years of Republican Chui
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