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 CONVENTION-AMERICAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ. JAN. 9, 1930. 1857 SCHEDULE IV. 8cbeduJelV. LETl'ER FROII HIS BRITANNIC JlAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT TO THE SECRETARY. GENERAL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. OF Tl:IE 2ND DAY OF MARCH, 1826. 8m, FOREIGN OFnCE, March 93, 19936. In compliance with the invitation conveyed in article 2 of the decision recorded by the Council of the League of Nations on the 16th December, 1925, I am directed bI Secretary Sir Austen Cham- berlain to transmit to you herewith, for submission to the Council, the text of a new treaty between Great Britain and Iraq which was signed at Bagdad on the 13th January, 1926. 2. By a decision dated the 27th September, 1924, the Council accepted the terms of the Treaty of Alliance between Great Britain and Iraq supplemented by certain undertakings given by His Majesty's Government, as giving effect, in TeS~ of Iraq, to the provisit:)ns of article 22 of the Covenant of the Le~e of Nations. By article 2 of their decision of December last the Council made the fUrther condition that the regime established by: the aforesaid Treat! of Alliance and undertakings should be continued for a specifiea period. The ret).uisite extension of the duration of the Treaty of Alliance is prOVIded for by article 1 of the new treaty. In sub- mitting this treaty to the Council, IDs Majesty's Government declare that so long as it remains in force they will regard as binding ~J-,e undertakings given by them to the Council in September 1924, and will continue to act in conformity therewith. 3. His Majesty's Government are thus in a p<?Sition to inform the Council that the stipulations of article 2 of the decision of December 1925 have been fulfilled, and that the necessary ste~ have been taken to ensure the continuance for twenty·five years of the present re~me as approved by the Council in september 1924 unless Iraq is, In confOrmIty with article 1 of the Covenant, admitt;i as a Member of the League before the expiration of that period. 4. Provision for periodical review of the question of the admission of Iraq to the League of Nations is made in article 3 of the new treaty. 5. By article 4 of their undertak!ngs, approved by the Council in September 1924, His Majesty's Government engaged that they would agree to no modification of the Treaty of Alliance without the consent of the Council of the League.. They hereby pve a similar undertaking in regard to the treaty of the 13th January2 1926. This undertaking will apply to any proJ>OSals that may: be mad.e, as a res-. ut of the disCussions contemplated In articles 2 and 3 of the new treaty, for the revision or amendment of the agreements subsidiary to the treaty of the 10th October, 1922. 6. In the 14tht of these explanations, His Majesty's Government request that the Council ma:y now be moved to take action, as con- templated in article 2 of their decision of December last, to declare that their decision in regard to the Turco-Iraq frontier has become definitive. _ 7. The treaty of the 13th January, 1926, has now been ~proved by the British House of Commons and by the Chamber of Deputies and Senate of Iraq.