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 Appointment of Each Government shall appoint its own representative to the said each Government; commission, the meetings of which are to be held, alternatively, in the meetings. capital city of one and the other Governments represented in each of them. The first meeting shall be held at the seat of the Government which convokes it. Duty of commis- Art. 2 .- The duty of the aforementioned commissions shall be to si ons . study, with the primary object of eliminating them, as far as possible, the causes of future difficulties or controversies; and to propose additional or detailed lawful measures which it might be convenient to take in order to promote, as far as possible, the due and regular application of treaties in force between the respective parties, and also to promote the development of increasingly good relations in all ways between the two countries dealt with in each case. Minutes of meet- Art. 3 .- After each meeting of any of the said preventive Com- fogs. missions a minute shall be drawn and signed by its members setting out the considerations and decisions thereof and such minute shall be transmitted to the governments represented in the commissions. obligations previ- Art. 4 .- The present treaty shall not affect obligations previously ously entered into not entered into by the High Contracting Parties by virtue of international affected. entered ito by the High Contractig Parties by virtue of mternatonal agreements. Ratifcation. Art. 5 .- The present Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contract- ing Parties in conformity with their respective constitutional pro- Ieposit of original. cedures. The original instrument shall be deposited in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Argentine Republic which shall transmit authentic certified copies to the Governments for the aforementioned Deposit of instru- purpose of ratification. The instruments of ratification shall be depos- ments of ratification. ited in the archives of the Pan American Union in Washington, which shall notify the signatory Governments of said deposit. Such notifica- tion shall be considered as an exchange of ratifications. Effective date. Art. 6 .- T he present Treaty will come into effect between the High Contracting Parties in the order in which they deposit their respective ratifications. Duration. Art. 7 .- The present Treaty shall remain in effect indefinitely but Denunciation. may be denounced by means of one year's notice given to the Pan American Union, which shall transmit it to the other signatory gov- ernments. After the expiration of this period the Treaty shall cease in its effects as regards the party which denounces it but shall remain in effect for the remaining High Contracting Parties. sigunttsw. In witness whereof, the above mentionedPlenipotentiaries sign the present Treaty in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French and hereunto affix their respective seals, at the City of Buenos Aires, Capital of the Argentine Republic, on the twenty-third day of the month of December, 1936. Reservation of the delegation of Peru Reservation by Peru adheres to the above proposal with a reservation to Article 1 Perl. in the sense that it understands that recourse to the bilateral mixed commission is not mandatory but optional. Argentina: CARLOS SAAVEDRA LAMAS, ROBERTO M. OrTIz, MIGUEL ANGEL CARCANO, JosE MARIA CANTILO, FELIPE A. ESPIL, LEOPOLDO MELO, ISIDORO RUIZ MORENO, DANIEL ANTOKOLETZ, CARLOS BREBBIA, CESAR DfAZ CISNEROS. 68 TREATIES

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