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SECOND INTER-DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON
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F QUESTION
THE RATIFICATION OF THE OPIUM CONVENTION 21779
REG 26 JUN 13
The Inter-Departmental Committee which met on May 5th had before then a telegram from His Majesty's Minister at the Hague in which it was stated that the Conference might be postponed till the autumn.
Though the Committee are of opinion that the
British Delegates should be instructed that His
Majesty's Government are not at present prepared to proceed to the deposit of ratifications, they consider it most desirable that the original intention of the Netherlands Government should be maintained, and that
a Conference should be held if possible in June.
Such a Conference would enable the Signatory States not only to review the position created by the additional signatures which have been affixed to the Convention since the last Conference, but also to con- cert measures to secure the signatures of countries which have either refused to sign or have for the pre- sent abstained from doing so.
The replies of these countries to the overtures of
the
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