Report Early Enforcement of Convention Desired Peking, Aug. 1.
The International Anti-Opium Association, Peking, has received the following full text of the resolutions adopted by the Advisory Committee of the League of Nations on the traffic in opium The Advisory Committee have agreed to the following resolutions 1.—That the Council of the League should be requested to urge on all States which have not yet done so, and in particular on Switzerland, Persia and Turkey, the desirability of bringing the Opium Convention into force in its entirety without delay.
2—That it is most desirable that the system of importation certificates unanimously adopted by the Council and the Assembly of the League should be brought into force by countries in Europe, America, Africa and Australia not jater than September 1, 1922, and by other countries not later than January 1, 1923, and that the Governments should be asked to adopt the form of importation certificates proposed by the Advisory Committee.
3.—That the Health Committee of the League of Nations should be asked by the Council to continue their inquiries into the requirements of the various countries of morphine and other dangerous drugs for medicinal and scientific purposes.
4.—That the Council should invite the Governments of all States signatory to the Convention of 1912, and other States members of the League, to furnish the Secretary-General of the League:. with a statement of their country's total requirements for internal consumption per annum of opium and its derivatives, indicating separately, -if possible, the quantities employed respectively for medicinal, scientific and other uses. The statement should distinguish the kinds of opium required and in the case of opium derivatives the amount should be given in terms of morphine content.
The Advisory Committee is further of the opinion that this statement should reach the Secretary-General not later than January 1, 1923, and that it is of particular importance that the quantities of opium required for consumption in Far Eastern countries, where the Chinese are the principal consumers, should be available by that date.
5.—That the Council of the League should, if the. necessity arises, invite the Governments of States which are parties to the Convention to facilitate the carrying out in their territories of joint investigations by commissions, appointed partly by the Governments themselves and partly by the League, into any questions arising under the Opium Convention.
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