CO129-588-24 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 23-11-1942 - 1-1-1943 — Page 82

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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 cf & comprehensive modern treaty or treaties of friendship, commerce, navigation and consuler rights upon the request of either cr them or in any case within six months after the cess: ticn f the hostilities in the war against the commen enemies in which they are both new engaged. The treaty Ir tre ties to be thus neguti: ted 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 Contructing arties have respectively conclu el with ther Pwers in recent years.

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(ii) Pning the conclusion of the comprehensive treaty or treaties referred to in the preceding paragraph, if any questions cffecting the rights in the territory of the Republic of China of the nationals or companies of His Majesty the King, cr of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom or of the Government of Indic, should arise in future and if these questions are n t c.vered by the present Treaty and exchange f notes r by the provisions

f the existing treaties, conventions and agreements between the High Contracting Parties which are not brigated by cr inc nois tent with the present Treaty and exchange f notes, such questions shall be discussed by representatives of the High Cntracting Parties in shall be decided in accordance with the generally accepted principles of international law and with m lern international practice.

Article 9. The present Treaty shell be retified and the instruments of ratification shall be exchanged t Chungking as soon as possible. The Treaty shall come int force on the day of the exchange of rtifications

In witness whereof the above mentioned plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and effixed there to their Becls.

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day of the

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1943 corresponding to the

month of the thirty-sec. nd year of the Republic of China, in uplicate

nglish and Chinese, both texts being equally authentic.

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