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 * For Italy:
 * His Excellency Baron de Renzis, Minister of Italy at Brussels.
 * For the Netherlands:
 * His Excellency Baron Gericke de Herwynen, Minister of the Netherlands at Brussels.
 * For Persia:
 * His Excellency General Nazare-Aga, Minister of Persia at Brussels.
 * For Russia:
 * His Excellency Prince Ouroussoff, Minister of Russia at Brussels.
 * For Sweden and Norway:
 * His Excellency de Burenstam, Minister of Sweden and Norway at Brussels.
 * For Turkey:
 * His Excellency Carathéodory Efendi, Minister of Turkey at Brussels.
 * For Zanzibar:
 * Mr. Martin Gosselin.

The undersigned met in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Brussels, for the purpose of carrying out Article XCIX of the General Act of the Brussels Conference.

Baron Lambermont, one of the Representatives of Belgium, read the aforesaid article and the penultimate paragraph of the Declaration. He informed the Assembly that the Government of His Majesty the King of the Belgians had received the instruments of ratification of His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, King of Prussia; of His Majesty the King of the Belgians; of His Majesty the King of Denmark; of His Majesty the King of Spain, and, in his name, of Her Majesty the Queen Regent; of His Majesty the Sovereign-King of the Independent State of the Congo; of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India; of His Majesty the King of Italy; of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, and, in her name, of Her Majesty the Queen Regent; of His Majesty the Shah of Persia; of His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway; of His Highness the Sultan of Zanzibar.

The aforesaid ratifications were produced and, after examination, were found to be in good and due form. According to the provisions of Article XCIX, these documents will be deposited in the archives of the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium.

The Representatives of the above-mentioned Powers gave the Representatives of Belgium official confirmation of that deposit.

His Excellency Count Khevenhüller-Metsch stated that His Majesty the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, his august Sovereign, had signed the ratifications of the General Act and the Declaration of July 2, 1890, that they had