711.212/8
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Colombia ( Caffery )
Sir: The Department refers to your despatch No. 592 of September 23, 1929,3 in which you request to be informed as to the status of a commercial treaty which has been alluded to by the Colombian authorities as now in negotiation between the United States and Colombia.
The Department’s records show that by instruction No. 905 of August 28, 1926,4 Minister Piles was directed to inquire of the Colombian authorities whether they would be disposed to enter into a treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights with the United States similar to the one concluded between the United States and Germany on December 8, 1923.5 It was stated in that instruction that if the Colombian Government was receptive to this proposal a special draft would be prepared by this Government for presentation to the Colombian Government. The Legation’s telegram No. 33 of November 6, 1926,6 stated that the Colombian Government would be willing to enter into negotiations with the United States for the conclusion of a treaty. The special draft, however, was not forwarded to the Legation for presentation to the Colombian Government.
You may state if occasion arises that this government has temporarily suspended all commercial treaty negotiations but that as soon as they are generally resumed you will receive further instructions in the matter.
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- Not printed.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1926, vol. ii, p. 1.↩
- ibid., 1923, vol. ii, p. 29.↩
- Not printed, but see despatch No. 971, November 8, 1926, from the Minister in Colombia, ibid., 1926, vol. ii, p. 3.↩