771.00/2–353
The French Foreign Ministry to the Embassy in France1
[Translation]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States of America and has the honor to send to it the enclosed certified true copy of the Convention signed at Tangier on November 10, 1952 by the plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the Spanish State, the French Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and North Ireland and the Italian Republic. This Convention relates to the reform of the international jurisdiction of Tangier as established by the Convention of Paris of December 18, 1923 modified by the Agreement of July 25, 1952 (sic).2
This text, which brings to the judicial organization of the Zone various amendments the necessity of which had been recognized by all of the powers participating in the Tangier Administration, was drafted by a Committee of Experts composed of representatives of each of the Governments sitting on the Committee of Control. It was approved unanimously by this latter in its meeting of November 10, 1952.
Articles 55 and 56 of the new Convention provide that the Government of the French Republic will communicate it for adherence to the Governments of the Powers having adhered to the Convention of December 18, 1923 as well as to the Government of the United States represented in the Committee of Control and that it will enter into force as soon as these governments have given their adherence.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, therefore, would be grateful to the Embassy of the United States of America if it would transmit to its Government the text of the convention of November 10, 1952 and let it know as soon as possible if the Government of the United States agrees to adhere to the said Convention.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs takes this opportunity [etc.].