Convention for the maintenance, preservation, and reestablishment of peace, between the United States of America and other American Republics. Signed at Buenos Aires, December 23, 1936; ratification advised by the Senate, June 29, 1937; ratified by the President, July 15, 1937; ratification of the United States of America deposited with the Government of Argentina, August 25, 1937; proclaimed, September 16, 1937. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. December 23, 1936 [T. S. No. 922] Inter-American convention for the maintenance, preservation, and reestab Preamble. WHEREAS a Convention for the Maintenance, Preservation and Reestablishment of Peace was signed at Buenos Aires on December 23, 1936, by the respective plenipotentiaries of the United States of lishment of peace. America and the twenty other American Republics represented at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, a true copy of which Convention, in the English, Spanish, Portuguese and French languages, is word for word as follows:1 CONVENTION FOR THE MAINTENANCE, PRESERVATION AND The Governments represented at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, CONSIDERING: That according to the statement of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President of the United States, to whose lofty ideals the meeting of this Conference is due, the measures to be adopted by it "would advance the cause of world peace, inasmuch as the agreements which might be reached would supplement and reinforce the efforts of the League of Nations and of all other existing or future peace agencies in seeking to prevent war"; That every war or threat of war affects directly or indirectly all civilized peoples and endangers the great principles of liberty and justice which constitute the American ideal and the standard of American international policy; That the Treaty of Paris of 1928 (Kellogg-Briand Pact) has been accepted by almost all the civilized states, whether or not members of other peace organizations, and that the Treaty of Non-Aggression and Conciliation of 1933 (Saavedra Lamas Pact signed at Rio de Janeiro) has the approval of the twenty-one American Republics represented in this Conference, 1 The texts follow literally the certified copy of the convention furnished by the Argentine Government.-The editor. Texts. 46 Stat. 2343. 49 Stat. 3363. Plenipotentiaries. Have resolved to give contractual form to these purposes by concluding the present Convention, to which end they have appointed the Plenipotentiaries hereafter mentioned: Joint consultation in event peace of American Republics menaced. 46 Stat. 2343. 49 Stat. 3363. War or virtual state of war between American States, position to be taken. International war menace peace within. without, which might Submission of questions to conciliation procedure, etc. Ratification. Who, after having deposited their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed as follows: Article I.-In the event that the peace of the American Republics is menaced, and in order to coordinate efforts to prevent war, any of the Governments of the American Republics signatory to the Treaty of Paris of 1928 or to the Treaty of Non-Aggression and Conciliation of 1933, or to both, whether or not a member of other peace organizations, shall consult with the other Governments of the American Republics, which, in such event, shall consult together for the purpose of finding and adopting methods of peaceful cooperation. Article II.—In the event of war, or a virtual state of war between American States, the Governments of the American Republics represented at this Conference shall undertake without delay the necessary mutual consultations, in order to exchange views and to seek, within the obligations resulting from the pacts above mentioned and from the standards of international morality, a method of peaceful collaboration; and, in the event of an international war outside America Which might menace the peace of the American Republics, such consultation shall also take place to determine the proper time and manner in which the signatory states, if they so desire, may eventually cooperate in some action tending to preserve the peace of the American Continent. Article III.-It is agreed that any question regarding the interpretation of the present Convention, which it has not been possible to settle through diplomatic channels, shall be submitted to the procedure of conciliation provided by existing agreements, or to arbitration or to judicial settlement. Article IV. The present Convention shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in conformity with their respective constitutional Deposit of original. procedures. The original convention shall be deposited in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic which shall com municate the ratifications to the other signatories. The Convention shall come into effect between the High Contracting Parties in the order in which they have deposited their ratifications. Article V. The present Convention shall remain in effect indefinitely but may be denounced by means of one year's notice, after the expiration of which period the Convention shall cease in its effects as regards the party which denounces it but shall remain in effect for the remaining signatory States. Denunciations shall be addressed to the Government of the Argentine Republic, which shall transmit them to the other contracting States. In witness whereof, the above mentioned Plenipotentiaries sign the present Convention in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French and hereunto affix their respective seals, at the City of Buenos Aires, Capital of the Argentine Republic, on the twenty-third day of the month of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-six. Reservation of Paraguay: "With the express and definite reservation in respect to its peculiar international position as regards the League of Nations". Argentina: CARLOS SAAVEDRA LAMAS, MIGUEL ANGEL CÁRCANO, JOSÉ MARÍA CANTILO, FELIPE A. ESPIL, LEOPOLDO MELO, ISIDORO RUIZ MORENO, DANIEL ANTOKOLETZ, CARLOS BREBBIA, CÉSAR DÍAZ CISNEROS. Paraguay: MIGUEL ANGEL SOLER, Honduras: ANTONIO BERMÚDEZ M., Costa Rica: MANUEL F. JIMÉNEZ, CARLOS BRenes. Venezuela: CARACCIOLO PARRA PÉREZ, GUSTAVO HERRERA, ALBERTO ZÉREGA FOMBONA. Peru: CARLOS CONCHA, ALBERTO ULLOA, FELIPE BARREDA LAOS, DIÓMEDES ARIAS SCHREIBER. El Salvador: MANUEL CASTRO RAMÍREZ, MAXIMILIANO PATRICIO BRANNON. Effective date. Duration. Signatures. Reservation of Para guay. |