مجموعة ٣٤/٩ "الرِق: اتفاقية الرِق: موقف بعض الولايات المُستقلة فيما يتعلق بها" [ظ‎‎٢‎٧] (٦٦/٥٤)

International Convention with the object of securing the
Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade.
Sifined at Geneva.—September 25, 1920.
[British Ratification deposited June 18, 1927.]
Albania. Germany, Austria, Belgium, the British Empire,
Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Union of South Africa,
the Dominion of New Zealand, and India, Bulgaria, China,
Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Abyssinia, Finland,
France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Norway, Panama,
the Netherlands, Persia, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, the Kingdom
of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and
Uruguay,
Whereas the signatories of the General Act of the Brussels
Conference of 1889-90 declared that they were equally animated
by the firm intention of putting an end to the traffic in African
slaves;
Whereas the signatories of the Convention of Saint-Germain-en-
Laye of 1919 to revise the General Act of Berlin of 1885 and the
General Act and Declaration of Brussels of 1890 affirmed their
intention of securing the complete suppression of slavery in all its
forms and of the slave trade by land and sea;
Taking into consideration the report of the Temporary Slavery
Commission appointed by the Council of the League of Nations on
the 12th June, 1924;
Desiring to complete and extend the work accomplished under
the Brussels Act and to find a means of giving practical effect
throughout the world to such intentions as were expressed in regard
to slave trade and slavery by the signatories of the Convention of
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and recognising that it is necessary to
conclude to that end more detailed arrangements than are contained
in that convention;
Considering, moreover, that.it is necessary to prevent forced
labour from developing into conditions analogous to slavery;
Dave decided to conclude a convention and have accordingly
appointed as their plenipotentiaries;
The President of the Supreme Council of Albania :
Dr. I). Dino, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo
tentiary to ilis Majesty the King of Italy.
The President of the German Reich :
Dr. Carl von Schubert, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
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