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[Distributed to the Council
and the Members of the League.]
Geneva, January 29th, 1930.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
CONVENTION BETWEEN THE HELLENIC GOVERNMENT
AND THE REFUGEE SETTLEMENT COMMISSION
Signed at Geneva on January 24th, 1930.
Official No.: C.107. M. 31- 1930. II.
[F. 730 (2).]
Note.
The Secretary-General has the honour to communicate herewith to the Members of the
Council the text of a Convention signed at Geneva on January 24th, 1930, by representatives
of the Hellenic Government and the Refugee Settlement Commission.
The Financial Committee examined this Convention during its thirty-seventh session, and
in its report (document C. 105.M.29.1930.II) recommends that the Convention should be approved
by the Council in so far as the latter is concerned.
CONVENTION
CONCLUDED AT GENEVA BETWEEN THE HELLENIC GOVERNMENT AND THE
REFUGEE SETTLEMENT COMMISSION ON JANUARY 24TH, 1930.
1. On or before December 31st, 1930, and subject to the provisions of Article 10 below,
all property, real and personal, which the Refugee Settlement Commission then possesses—
including real estate, movables, cash, securities, and all rights and claims of every kind—will,
except where the contrary is specifically provided for in the following articles, be transferred to
the Hellenic Government, which will then stand, in so far as all properties, rights and claims of
every kind so transferred are concerned, in the place of the Refugee Settlement Commission.
This transfer will be made subject to the terms and conditions stated in the following articles.
2. As an essential condition of the transfer provided for in Article 1 above and subject
to the conditions included in this Convention, the Hellenic Government agrees to assume, and
undertakes to discharge, all obligations, of every kind whatsoever, binding the Commission.
3. To facilitate the operations of the Hellenic Government, the Refugee Settlement
Commission undertakes to prepare, and to hand over to the Hellenic Government before the date
specified in Article 1, lists, as complete as possible, of all claims which the Commission has as against
third parties—other than agricultural or urban refugees established by the Refugee Settlement
Commission, for which a special procedure is provided—and to prepare, and make over to the
Hellenic Government, lists, as complete as possible, of all obligations undertaken by the Refugee
Settlement Commission, the discharge of which will be undertaken by the Hellenic Government
under Article 2 above, as the Refugee Settlement Commission anticipates that, at the date specified
in Article 1, various minor obligations will be outstanding, connected with the execution of current
contracts which, for a variety of reasons, it may prove impossible to complete before such date.
Apart from those current and minor obligations, the following major obligations will probably
be outstanding: (i) the completion of the cadastral survey, (ii) the completion of the Drama-
Ossenitza and Zirnovo-Borovo roads.
- As regards (i) above, the Commission—while for obvious reasons unable to undertake a definite
legal liability—considers that it will be able to leave, under Article 1 above, sufficient funds to
meet the estimated expenditure necessary to complete the cadastre of the land in the possession
of the Refugee Settlement Commission on the date specified in Article 1 and the subsidiary
Series of League of Nations Publications
II. ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL
1930. II. 6.
S.d.N. 1030 (F.) 965 (A.) 2/30. Imp. Kundig.