OPIUM CONVENTIONS.
RATIFICATION QUESTION. TURKEY AND PERSIA ALOOF. (Received February '2O, 5.25 p.m.> „ British Wireless. RUGBY. Feb. 33 The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, was asked in the >House of Commons whether the Foreign Office had taken, or would take, steps to induce Turkey 3nd Persia to ratify the opium conventions, seeing how far the success of the anti-drug campaign depended upon united international action. The Minister replied that tho British representatives in Turkey had from time to time urged upon tho Turkish Government the desirability of it acceding to the opium conventions. The question of Persia's attitude had been discussed by the Council of the League of Nations, of which Persia was .a member. Neither tho Turkish nor tho Persian Government could bo in any doubt about tho importance attached by the British Government, and by the other parties to the opium conventions, to their undertaking at an early date the obligations of those instruments.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20495, 21 February 1930, Page 13
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