The Geneva Protocol Part 24

The agreements mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be registered and published by the Secretariat of the League of Nations. They shall remain open to all States Members of the League which may desire to accede thereto.

ARTICLE 14.

The Council shall alone be competent to declare that the application of sanctions shall cease and normal conditions be re-established.

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ARTICLE 15.

Pour repondre a l'esprit du present Protocole, les Etats signataires conviennent que la totalite des frais de toute operation d'ordre militaire, naval ou aerien, entreprise pour la repression d'une agression, conformement aux termes de ce Protocole, ainsi que la reparation de tous dommages subis par les personnes civiles ou militaires, et de tous dommages materiels occasionnes par les operations de part et d'autre, seront supportes par l'Etat agresseur jusqu'a l'extreme limite de sa capacite.

Toutefois, vu l'article 10 du Pacte, il ne pourra, comme suite a l'application des sanctions visees au present Protocole, etre porte atteinte en aucun cas a l'integrite territoriale ou a l'independance politique de l'Etat agresseur.

ARTICLE 16.

Les Etats signataires conviennent qu'en cas de differend entre un ou plusieurs parmi eux et un ou plusieurs Etats non signataires du present Protocole ertangers a la Societe des Nations, ces Etats etrangers seront invites, aux conditions prevues a l'article 17 du Pacte, a se soumettre aux obligations acceptees par les signataires du present Protocole aux fins de reglement pacifique.

Si l'Etat invite, refusant d'accepter les dites conditions et obligations, recourt a la guerre centre un Etat signataire, les dispositions de l'article 16 du Pacte, telles qu'elles sont precisees par le present Protocole, lui sont applicables.

ARTICLE 17.

Les Etats signataires s'engagent a prendre part a une Conference internationale pour la reduction des armements qui devra etre convoquee par le Conseil et qui se reunira a Geneve le lundi 15 juin 1925. Tous autres Etats, Membres ou non de la Societe, seront invites a cette Conference.

En vue de la convocation de la Conference, le Conseil

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ARTICLE 15.

In conformity with the spirit of the present Protocol the signatory States agree that the whole cost of any military, naval or air operations undertaken for the repression of an aggression under the terms of the Protocol, and reparation for all losses suffered by individuals, whether civilians or combatants, and for all material damage caused by the operations of both sides, shall be borne by the aggressor State up to the extreme limit of its capacity.

Nevertheless, in view of Article 10 of the Covenant, neither the territorial integrity nor the political independence of the aggressor State shall in any case be affected as the result of the application of the sanctions mentioned in the present Protocol.

ARTICLE 16.

The signatory States agree that in the event of a dispute between one or more of them and one or more States which have not signed the present Protocol and are not Members of the League of Nations, such non-Member States shall be invited, on the conditions contemplated in Article 17 of the Covenant, to submit, for the purpose of a pacific settlement, to the obligations accepted by the States signatories of the present Protocol.

If the State so invited, having refused to accept the said conditions and obligations, resorts to war against a signatory State, the provisions of Article 16 of the Covenant, as defined by the present Protocol, shall be applicable against it.

ARTICLE 17.

The signatory States undertake to partic.i.p.ate in an International Conference for the Reduction of Armaments which shall be convened by the Council and shall meet at Geneva on Monday, June 15th, 1925. All other States, whether Members of the League or not, shall be invited to this Conference.

In preparation for the convening of the Conference, the

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preparera, en tenant compte des engagements prevus aux articles 11 et 13 du present Protocole, un programme general pour la reduction et la limitation des armements qui sera mis a la disposition de cette Conference et communique aux gouvernements le plus tot possible, et au plus tard trois mois avant la reunion.

Si au moins la majorite des Membres representes en permanence au Conseil et dix autres Membres de la Societe n'ont pas depose leur ratification pour le 1er mai 1925, le Secretaire general de la Societe devra prendre immediatement l'avis du Conseil pour savoir s'il doit annuler les invitations ou simplement ajourner la Conference a une date ulterieure, qui sera fixee par le Conseil pour permettre la reunion du nombre necessaire de ratifications.

ARTICLE 18.

Toutes les fois que, dans l'article 10 ou dans toutes autres dispositions du present Protocole, il est fait mention d'une decision du Conseil, elle s'entend dans le sens de l'article 15 du Pacte, a savoir que le vote des representants des Parties au differend ne compte pas dans le calcul de l'unanimite ou de la majorite requise.

ARTICLE 19.

A defaut de stipulations expresses, le present Protocole n'affecte pas les droits et les obligations des Membres de la Societe des Nations, tels qu'ils resultent du Pacte.

ARTICLE 20.

Tout differend relatif a l'interpretation du present Protocole sera soumis a la Cour permanente de Justice Internationale.

ARTICLE 2l.

Le present Protocole, dont les textes francais et anglais feront foi, sera ratifie.

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Council shall draw up with due regard to the undertakings contained in Articles 11 and 13 of the present Protocol a general programme for the reduction and limitation of armaments, which shall be laid before the Conference and which shall be communicated to the Governments at the earliest possible date, and at the latest three months before the Conference meets.

If by May 1st, 1925, ratifications have not been deposited by at least a majority of the permanent Members of the Council and ten other Members of the League, the Secretary-General of the League shall immediately consult the Council as to whether he shall cancel the invitations or merely adjourn the Conference to a subsequent date to be fixed by the Council so as to permit the necessary number of ratifications to be obtained.

ARTICLE 18.

Wherever mention is made in Article 10, or in any other provision of the present Protocol, of a decision of the Council, this shall be understood in the sense of Article 15 of the Covenant, namely that the votes of the representatives of the parties to the dispute shall not be counted when reckoning unanimity or the necessary majority.

ARTICLE 19.

Except as expressly provided by its terms, the present Protocol shall not affect in any way the rights and obligations of Members of the League as determined by the Covenant.

ARTICLE 20.

Any dispute as to the interpretation of the present Protocol shall be submitted to the Permanent Court of International Justice.