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Item No.

13.6

CONFIDENTIAL

5

Convention

Convention and

Regime

of

1923

The

1.

Statute on the International

Maritime

Ports,

Geneva,

Convention was concluded in Geneva

on 9 December 1923. The UK ratified it on 29

August 1924 and applied it to Hong Kong on 22

The PRC is not a party to

September

it.

1925.

2.

The

require the

the

Convention and the annexed Statute

vessels

Contracting

ports situated

authority.

respect of

the use of

the benefits

States to grant to

of other Contracting States

equality of treatment with its own vessels or

those of any other State in the maritime

under its sovereignty OI

Equal treatment must be given in

freedom of access to the ports, ports, and the full enjoyment of

regarding navigation, commercial

operations, cargoes and passengers. Under

Article 5 of the Convention, the latter is

open to accession by any State represented at

General

the

Second

Conference

on

Communications and Transit (Article 1), by

any Member Of the League of Nations and by any State to which the Council of the League of Nations shall have communicated a copy of

the Convention for this purpose.

CONFIDENTIAL