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724.3415/302: Telegram

The Chairman of the International Conference of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration (Kellogg) to the Bolivian Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs (Palacios)62

[Washington,] December 10, 1928.

As directed by the International Conference of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration which convened in the city of Washington this morning, I have the honor to transmit herewith the following resolution which was unanimously adopted by this Conference:

  • “(1) To express to the Governments of the sister Republics of Bolivia and Paraguay the keen desire and the hope which it entertains that their present differences shall be arranged pacifically and in a spirit of justice, concord and of fraternity;
  • “(2) To convey in a cordial and respectful manner to those Governments, in conformity with the tradition of this continent and with the general practices of modern international law that nations under circumstances such as the present have at their disposal organisms and means adequate and efficient to find solutions which harmonize the preservation of peace with the rights of States;
  • “(3) To transmit this resolution by telegraph to the Governments of Bolivia and Paraguay;
  • “(4) To form a Committee which shall report to the Conference with respect to the conciliatory action which, if necessary, it might render cooperating with the instrumentalities now employed in the friendly solution of the problem.”

Frank B. Kellogg
  1. The same, on the same date, to the Paraguayan Minister for Foreign Affairs.↩