CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 581

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sign this convention.

It appears that Greece has refused

to sign without stating any reason,

while the Turkish Government have based

their refusal on the same economic

reasons which prevented them from taking

part in the Conference.

The Swiss Federal Council in their

reply, while expressing sympathy with

the high moral purposes that inspired the

convention stated that they did not

consider that the co-operation of

Switzerland would serve any useful pur-

They based their view on the

рове.

facts that Switzerland neither produced

nor exported opium and that the improper

use of opium was not prevalent in the

country. They added that the use of

Opium and its alcaloids and of cocaine

was already strictly regulated by the

national and cantonal pharmacy laws and

that as to the chemical factories which

manufactured morphine and cocaine, their

control