Legal > Conférence pour la Codification du droit International

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URUGUAY.
Delegate :
His Excellency Dr. Enrique Buero, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
His Majesty the King of the Belgians and to Her
Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands.
Delegates :
His Excellency M. Bochko
Dr. Mileta Novakovitch,
Dr. Ante Verona,
Assistant Delegate :
Dr. Ivan V. Soubbotitch,
Technical A dviser :
Dr. Slavko Stoikovitch,
Mme Anne Godyevatz,
YUGOSLAVIA (Kingdom of).
Christitch, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands,
President of the Delegation.
Professor at the University of Belgrade, former Judge
ad hoc of the Permanent Court of International
Justice.
Rector of the School of Higher Economic and Com¬
mercial Studies at Zagreb.
Chief of Section in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Attache at the Reparations Commission.
Graduate-in-Law.
and as observers:
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS.
His Excellency M. Dmitri Kourski,
Assisted by :
M. George Lachkevitch,
M. Vladimir Egoriew,
Ambassador to His Majesty the King of Italy.
Legal Adviser at the Embassy to the President of the
French Republic.
Legal Adviser at the “People’s Commissariat” for
Foreign Affairs.
who met at The Hague on 13th March, 1930, with, as President, Monsieur HEEMSKERK,
formerly Prime Minister of the Netherlands, and, as Secretary-General, Monsieur J. A.
BUERO, Legal Adviser of the Secretariat of the League of Nations, appointed in their
respective capacities by the Council of the League of Nations.
Mr. DAVID HUNTER MILLER {United States of America), Dr. HARUKAZU NAGA-
OKA {Japan) and Monsieur Eduardo SUAREZ {Mexico) were elected Vice-Presidents.
Monsieur H. DANIELS, Secretary at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Nether¬
lands, was appointed Deputy Secretary-General.
The three questions on the agenda of the Conference, that is to say, Nationality,
Territorial Waters and the Responsibility of States for Damage caused in their Territory
to the Person or Property of Foreigners, were each examined by a Committee.
The Committee on Nationality was presided over by M. N. Politis {Greece), assisted
by M. Chao-Chu Wu {China), Vice-Chairman, and Dr. J. G. Guerrero {Salvador),
Rapporteur.
The Committee on Territorial Waters was presided over by M. Goppert {Germany),
assisted by M. Antonio Goicoechea {Spain), Vice-Chairman, and M. J. P. A. Francois
{Netherlands), Rapporteur.
The Committee on Responsibility was presided over by M. Jules Basdevant {France),
assisted by M. A. Diaz de Villar {Cuba), Vice-Chairman, and M. C. De Visscher
{Belgium), Rapporteur.
The Conference also appointed a Drafting Committee consisting of M. Amedeo Gian-
nini {Italy), Chairman, M. E. Pepin {France), as Rapporteur, and Mr. W. E. Beckett
{United Kingdom), M. Miguel Cruchaga-Tocornal {Chile), Mr. Manley O. Hudson
{United States of America) and M. Henri Rolin {Belgium).
As a result of the discussions which are recorded in the minutes of the plenary
meetings and of the meetings of the Committees, which were held from the 13th March
to the 12th April, 1930, a number of instruments, resolutions and recommendations were
drawn up.