1899 Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes

Pacific Settlement of International Disputes (1899) / 1899 Convention / The Hague Convention 1899 / Hague (I) 1899

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Permanent Court of Arbitration

The Hague (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)

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Government of the Netherlands Treaty Database

04/09/1900

Article 58:
“The present Convention shall be ratified as speedily as possible. The ratifications shall be deposited at The Hague. A procès-verbal shall be drawn up recording the receipt of each ratification, and a copy duly certified shall be sent, through the diplomatic channel, to all the Powers who were represented at the International Peace Conference at The Hague.”

Article 59:
“The non-Signatory Powers who were represented at the International Peace Conference can adhere to the present Convention. For this purpose they must make known their adhesion to the Contracting Powers by a written notification addressed to the Netherlands Government, and communicated by it to all the other Contracting Powers.”

Article 61:
“In the event of one of the High Contracting Parties denouncing the present Convention, this denunciation would not take effect until a year after its notification made in writing to the Netherlands Government, and by it communicated at once to all the other Contracting Powers. This denunciation shall only affect the notifying Power.”

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The 1899 Hague Convention led to the creation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.