RIGHTS OF FOREIGNERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 November 1929, Page 7

RIGHTS OF FOREIGNERS

CONFERENCE PROPOSALS. (By Came —Press Assn. —Copyright? PARIS v November 28. It is now possible to indicate the broad lines of treatment of foreigners which will be taken by the Convention now being formulated here by International Conference on the subject. The lines it will take are indicated by a survey of the draft articles that are awaiting the final approval of the conference. These articles . indicate that the Convention will embody all of the guarantees that are to be afforded, on the basis of reciprocity, by any one State to the nationals of other States, whether , they be natural born, or naturalised, after being permitted to establish themselves in the .territory of the latter States. These guarantees apply not only to the exercise of all economic activities, but also to civil rights, to the acquisition, preservation and transmission of property and interests of all kinds ■ to charges' of a fiscal character, both exceptional and normal. The guarantees are considered to constitute a complete codification of the law of establishment, having regard to the various national disparities and conception® of law and international practice. It has been generally agreed throughout the discussions that “the most favoured nations” treatment has in the past led to differentiation and to uncertainty, therefore an outstanding feature of the convention will be the freedom permitted to States regarding the admismission of foreigners, and the right to expel undesirables. The Conference is sitting from nine in the morning till midnight, and yet there remain many important questions to be decided.