OPIUM CONVENTION
'TURKEY! AND,PERSIA
OBLIGATION TO RATIFY
British OfflcUl Wlrelesi.
RUGBY, 19th February
■In the House of Commons, Mr. A. Henderson, the Foreign Secretary, was asked whether the Foreign Office had taken or would take, steps to induce Turkey and Persia to ratify the Opium Conventions, seeing how far the success of the anti-drug campaign depended upon united international action.
He replied that the British representatives in Turkey had from time to time urged upon the Turkish Government the desirability of its acceding to the Opium Conventions and.the question of Persia's attitude to the- Conventions had been the subject of discussion at the Council of the League of Nations, of which Persia was a member. Neither the Turkish nor the Persian Government could be jn any doubt regarding the importance attached by the British Government and" by the other parties to the Opium Conventions/and to their_ undertaking at an early date the obligations of those instruments.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 44, 21 February 1930, Page 9
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156OPIUM CONVENTION Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 44, 21 February 1930, Page 9
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