710.1012 Commission/1
The Secretary of State to the Colombian Minister (Olaya)22
Sir: By Article 3 of the Treaty to avoid or prevent conflicts between the American States, signed on May 3, 1923, at the Fifth International Conference of American States, held in Santiago, Chile, a copy of which I enclose for your ready convenience,23 it is stipulated that the two Permanent Commissions provided for in the Treaty, shall be established with their seats at Washington and at Montevideo, and that they shall be composed of the three American diplomatic agents longest accredited in those capitals, who, at the call of the foreign offices of the United States of America and Uruguay, shall organize and appoint their respective chairmen.
Inasmuch as this treaty has been ratified by the United States of America, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Paraguay and Venezuela, and is now in force as between those Governments, I have the honor, in fulfillment of the duty entrusted to me by the Treaty, to invite you, as one of the three senior American accredited diplomatic agents residing in Washington, to meet with the two other senior American diplomatic agents at this capital, Mr. J. Varela, Minister of Uruguay, and Señor Doctor Bicardo J. Alfaro, Minister of Panama, who have been similarly invited, for the purpose of organizing the Permanent Commission having its seat at Washington provided for in the Treaty. I shall be obliged if I may be informed of the action taken on this request.
I understand that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Uruguay is similarly inviting the three senior American diplomatic agents accredited to that Government for the organization of the other Commission provided for in the Treaty, to have its seat at Montevideo.
Accept [etc.]
- The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date, to the Panaman Minister and the Uruguayan Minister.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1923, vol. i, p. 308.↩