The Archive · 1941

90 Minutes

Mr. Otoji Saito, Secretary-General of the Tokyo Mediation Conference, and Me, Shunichi Matsumoto, Director of the Treaty Bureat of the Foreign Coo, also attended the Matstioka-Atgone-Henry meeting which lasted or 90 minutes.

Tt was understood that a summary of the terms of mediation would be made public as soon as they are signed. Simultaneously, a joint com munique by Japan,' France and '"alland, og' well as a review of the negotiations and a statement by Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka will be macle public.

Two Franco-Thai treaties referring to Prench Indo-China, as well as three other pacts concluded between the two countries, it was understood, will bbe revised by the border redemarcation resultant from the Tokyo conference.

The affected pacts are the Treaty of October 3, 1893 by which Siam renounced all claims to territories the west bank of the Mekong River, and the Treaty of March 23, 1907 Under which Siam ceded Battambony, and Sisophon to France. The three others are the Franco-Siamese Treaty of Amity and Commerce signed on Februmy 14. 1925; the Paris Treaty signed between the two countries August 28, 1926, and the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation siamed'at Paris on December 7, 1937.—Domei.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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