ALIENS IN STATES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 29 November 1929, Page 13

ALIENS IN STATES.

MATTER OF TREATMENT*

CONVENTION BEING DRAFTED.

(Received November 28, 10.45 p.m.)

PARIS, Nor. 28

A survey of the draft articles awaiting the final approval of the Conference on the Treatment of Foreigners makes it possible to indicate the broad lines the convention will take.

The indications are that the convention will embody all the guarantees to bo 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—which are to apply not only to the exercise of all economic activities, but also to civil and legal rights, to the acquisition, preservation and transmission of property and; interests of all kinds and to charges of a fiscal character both exceptional and normal—are considered to constitute a complete codification qf the law of establishment, having regard to the various national disparities and conceptions of law and international

practice. It has been generally agreed throughout the discussions that the most-favoured-nation treatment in the past has led to differentiation and uncertainty. As a result an outstanding feature of the convention will be the freedom permitted, to States in regard to the admission of foreigners and their right to expel undesirables.

The conference is now sitting from 9 a.m. until midnight, but there still remain many important questions to be decided.