THE ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20288, 22 December 1927, Page 11

THE ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY

RIGHTS OF FOREIGNERS. ADEQUATE PROTECTION. (British Official Wireless.) (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY December 20. The treaty between Britain and Iraq stipulates that separate agreements superseding those of March 25, 1924, shall regulate financial and military relations. The King of Iraq undertakes to secure the execution of all international obligations which his Britannic Majesty has undertaken to see carried out in respect ot Iraq. He also undertakes not to modify the existing provisions of th e Iraq organic law so as adversely to affect the rights and interests of foreigners or to constitute any difference in the rights before law among Irakis on the ground of cmferences of race, religion, or language. There shall be full and frank consultation between the high contracting parties m all matters of foreign policy which may affect their common interests.

The King of Iraq undertakes, so soon as local conditions permit, to accede to all general international agreements already existing or which may be concluded thereafter with the approval of the League of Nations in respect of th e slave trade ; the traffic in drugs, arms, and munitions ; traffic in women and children, transit, navigation against nationals or companies also to execute the provisions of the Covenant of the League of Nations, the Treaty of Lausanne, the Anglo-French Boundary Convention, and the San Romo oil agreement in so far as they apply to Iraq. There shall be no discrimination in matters concerning taxation, commerce, or navigtation against nationals or companies of any State which is a member of the League of Nations or of any State to which the King of Iraq has agreed by the treaty that the satne rights should be ensured as if it were a member of the League. Any difference that may arise between the high contracting parties regarding the interpretation of provisions of this treaty shall be referred to the Permanent Court of International Justice provided for by article 14 of the Covenant of the League. The treaty shall be subject to review with th e object of making all modifications required by circumstances when Iraq enters the League of Nations.

CORRECT TEXT OF TREATY. TO BE TABLED SOON. LONDON, December 20. In th e House of Commons Mr W. G. Ormsby-Gore (Colonial Under-secretary), in answer to Mr Ramsay MacDonald, said that he had seen_ a report of the AngloIraq Treaty published at Cairo. H e did not know where the information had been obtained He was tabling a correct text, of which the Cairo version was a free but accurate translation,—A. and N.Z. and Sydney Sun Cable.