[Enclosure]
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
C.110.M.54.1935.VII.
Geneva, March 4,
1935.
Communicated to the Council and Members of the
League.
Communication From the Colombian
Government
Note by the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General has the honour to communicate for the
information of the Council and Members of the League the following
letter dated February 27th, 1935, which he has received from the
Permanent Delegation of Colombia to the League of Nations.
(Translation from the Spanish)
The Permanent Delegation of Colombia to the League of Nations has the
honour to bring to the notice of the Secretary-General the [Page 215] following communiqué which
the Colombian Government issued to the Colombian press on the 25th
instant:
“Difficulties of parliamentary procedure having arisen which
prevented the Colombian Congress from considering the
Protocol of Friendship and Co-operation between Colombia and
Peru, it was not possible to proceed to the exchange of
ratifications within the time-limit originally fixed in
Article 9 of the Protocol.
“The Government of Colombia proposed to the Government of
Peru that this time-limit should be extended, while
reaffirming its intention of maintaining in the letter and
the spirit the international policy embodied in the Protocol
and seeking the sanction of the next Congress, which is to
be elected in May and to meet in July of the current
year.
“The Peruvian Minister in Colombia has now intimated that the
Congress of his country has sanctioned the extension of the
time-limit for the exchange of ratifications until November
30th of the current year, and the two Governments, in the
cordial exchange of notes which has taken place between
their Chancelleries, have expressed their intention of
maintaining unaltered the effects which the Protocol has so
far produced, and ensuring the continuance of the same
atmosphere of cordiality and mutual confidence that has been
one of the happy results of that diplomatic instrument. Each
Government will give notice of the extension agreed upon to
the League of Nations and to the Government of Brazil in the
same form in which it gave notice of the signature of the
Protocol, and also to His Excellency Monsieur Afranio de
Mello Franco, the eminent President of the Conference of Rio
de Janeiro.
“In the exchange of notes aforesaid, the two Governments have
agreed that the Joint Commission set up for the purposes
specified in Article 6 of the Protocol shall continue to
function as hitherto, and to receive the same cordial
support and co-operation from the two Governments with a
view to the successful issue of its labours.
“Inasmuch as Article 5 of the Protocol provides that the
States shall prepare an agreement for the demilitarization
of the frontier in conformity with the normal requirements
of their security, it has further been agreed that the
Technical Commission referred to in the said Article 5 shall
shortly be set up at Lima.”
The text of the foregoing communiqué was agreed upon by the Colombian
Minister for Foreign Affairs with the Peruvian Legation at Bogotá,
and it was arranged that the Peruvian Government should issue a
communiqué in identical terms.
The Permanent Delegation of Colombia to the League of Nations avails
itself of this opportunity, etc.
Geneva, February 27, 1935.
