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Article 7. The Consular officers of one High Contracting Party, duly provided with exequaturs, shall be permitted to reside in those ports, places and cities of the territories of the other High Contracting Party which are or may be open to consular officers of any foreign Power. The consular officers of one High Contracting Party shall have the right within their districts in the territories of the other High Contracting Party to interview, communicate with and to advise the nationals and companies of the former High Contracting Party, and the nationals and companies of one High Contracting Party within the territory of the other High Contracting Party shall have the right at all times to communicate with the consular officers of the former High Contracting Party. The Consular officers of one High Contracting Party in the territories of the other shall be informed immediately by the appropriate local

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authorities when any of their nationals are arrested or detained in their consular districts by the local authorities. shall have the right to visit within the limits of their districts any of their nationals who are under arrest or awaiting trial in prison. Communications from the nationals of one High Contracting Party in prison in the territories of the other High Contracting Party addressed to the consular officers of the former High Contracting Party will be forwarded to the appropriate consular officer by the local authorities, Consular officers of one High Contracting Party shall be accorded in the territories of the other High Contracting Party the rights, priveleges and immunities enjoyed by consular officers under modern international usage.

Article 8, 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 cncmics 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.

Pending the conclusion of the comprehensive treaty or treaties referred to in the preceding paragraph, all provisions of the existing treaties, conventions or agreements between the High Contracting Partics shall remain in force in so far as they are not abrogated by or inconsistent with the present Treaty. If any question affecting the rights in the territory of the Republic of China of the nationals or companies of His Majesty the King should arise in future and if these questions are not covered by the provisions of the previous treaties conventions and agreements above mentioned which are not abrogated by or inconsistent with the present Treaty, such questions shall be discussed by representatives of the High Contracting Parties

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