For the information of the Department I have the honor to enclose
herewith copy of a Memorandum41 requesting the information [Page 174] desired by the Department which was
handed to the Sub-Secretary in charge of the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs on August 18th; and also copy and translation of a
Memorandum of August 19th from the Foreign Office in reply to the
Legation’s Memorandum.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[Enclosure—Translation42]
The Nicaraguan Ministry
of Foreign Affairs to the American Legation
Nicaragua considers in force the treaties celebrated in
Washington in 1907, generally known as the Central American
Conventions of Washington, which were signed by the five
Republics of the isthmus, with the sole exception of the
convention on “Future Central American Conferences” whose
duration was for five years and which was denounced by Nicaragua
December 16, 1913, and of the convention creating the Central
American Court of Justice, which established a definite period
of duration of ten years, which also was denounced by Nicaragua
March 11, 1917.43 This
latter treaty, by clearly and definitely specifying its
duration, would of itself have been incapable of duration at the
expiration of the period indicated in it without the necessity
of any special denouncement or measure to that effect.
II
Nicaragua considers in force in all its parts the General Central
American Treaty of Peace and Amity signed in 1907, and since it
has not been its intention to declare it not in force on its
part, it has not used to date the right which article 19 of said
treaty grants to it.
Thus on several occasions it has been brought to the attention of
the Government of Salvador in the controversy with respect to
the period of enforcement of that convention that on the part of
Nicaragua it has been complied with and is being complied with
in each and every one of its clauses.
III
The Government of Nicaragua has not made use of the right which
article 15 of the Central American Extradition Treaty of 1907
concedes to it and therefore considers it in force in all of its
parts.
IV
As was said at the beginning, the Government of Nicaragua, making
use of the right which article 5 of the convention on “Future
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Conferences” concedes to it, denounced this convention December
16, 1913.
V
Nicaragua has not made any move to terminate or to consider not
in force the Central American treaties relative to the Central
American International Bureau and to the creation of a Central
American Pedagogical Institute, and only, as has been said in
paragraphs I and IV of this memorandum, has denounced the treaty
relative to the creation of the Central American Court of
Justice, on March 11, 1917, and the treaty on the future
conferences, on December 16, 1913.
Managua
,
August 19, 1920
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