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RUSSO-CHINESE AGREEMENT
(5) The Governments of the two Contracting Parties mutually agree that the future of the Chinese Eastern Railway shall be determined by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Republic of China, to the exclusion of any third party or parties.
(6) The Governments of the two Contracting Parties agree to draw up an arrangement for the provisional management of the Chinese Eastern Railway pending the settlement of the questions as provided under Section (3) of the present Article.
(7) Until the various questions relating to the Chinese Eastern Railway are settled at the Conference as provided in Article II. of the present Agreement, the rights of the two Governments arising out of the Contract of August 27th and September 8th, 1896, for the construction and operation of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which do not conflict with the present Agreement and the Agreement for the provisional management of the said railway and which do not prejudice China's right of sovereignty, shall be maintained.
Art. X.-The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics agrees to renounce the special rights and privileges relating to all Concessions in any part of China acquired by the Tsarist Government under various Conventions, Treaties, Agreements, etcetera.
Art. XI.-The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics agrees to renounce the Russian portion of the Boxer Indemnity.
Art. XII.-The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics agrees to relinquish the rights of extraterritoriality and Consular jurisdiction.
Art. XIII.-The Governments of the two Contracting Parties, agree to draw up simultaneously with the conclusion of a Commercial Treaty at the Conference, as provided in Article II. of the present Agreement, a Customs Tariff for the two Contracting Parties in accordance with the principles of equality and reciprocity.
Art. XIV. The Governments of the two Contracting Parties agree to discuss at the afore-mentioned Conference the questions relating to the claims for the com- pensation of losses.
Art. XV.-The present Agreement shall come into effect from the date of signature.
In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Agreement in duplicate in the English language and have affixed thereto their seals.
Done at the City of Peking this fourteenth day of March, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-four.
(Signed)
Lov MIKHAILOVITCH KARAKHAN.
HINGTING THOMAS WANG.
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