‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎208] (531/578)

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AFGHANISTAN—APPENDIX NO. XI— 1926.
Protocol of the Treaty of reciprocal neutrality and non-aggression contracted
between the Exalted Governments of Afghanistan and the Union of
Soviet Socialist Kepublics. —Paghman, 1305.
PROTOCOL.
The following signatories, who were correctly empowered to sign the treaty
of reciprocal neutrality and non-aggression between the Government of the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics and the exalted Government of Afghanistan, by
permission of their respective Governments, have exchanged the following state-
ments on the occasion of signing the said treaty.
His Excellency Aqai Leonid Stark, Minister Plenipotentiary in Afghanistan
of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, states that he has received permission
from the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to certify in
the name of his Government that, on the occasion of signing the above treaty,
the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, having been faithful
to the principles of the treaty of the 28th February 1921, has no agreement with
any State or States contrary to the treaty contracted on the 31st August 1926,
regarding reciprocal neutrality and non-aggression. Similarly, he states on behalf
of his Government that the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub
lics certifies that, during the whole of the period for which this treaty of reciprocal
neutrality and non-aggression remains in force, the said Government will not enter
into such treaties or conventions as may be contrary to this treaty of reciprocal
neutrality and non-aggression. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics trusts
that the friendly relations between the Governments of the Union of Soviet Social
ist Republics and Afghanistan, based on the treaty contracted in Moscow on the
28th February 1921, and on the treaty contracted at Paghman on the 31st August
1926, will invariably increase and will be based on the lofty ideal of general peace.
His Excellency Aqai Mahmud Beg Khan Tarzi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the exalted Government of Afghanistan, states that he has received permis
sion from the Afghan Government to certify in the name of his Government that,
on the occasion of signing the above treaty, the Afghan Government, having been
faithful to the principles of the treaty of the 28th February 1921, has no agree
ment with any State or States contrary to the treaty contracted on the 31 st August
1926, regarding reciprocal neutrality and non-aggression. Similarly, he states
on behalf of his Government that the Afghan Government certifies that, during
the whole of the period for which this treaty of reciprocal neutrality and non-
aggression remains in force, the said Government will not enter into such treaties
or conventions as may be contrary to this treaty of reciprocal neutrality and
non-aggression. The Afghan Government trusts that friendly relations between
the Governments of Afghanistan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
based on the treaty contracted in Moscow on the 28th February 1921, and on the
treaty contracted at Paghman on the 31st August 1926, will invariably increase
and will be based on the lofty ideal of general peace.