The right of Conquest

Whereas the International American Conférence feels that it would fall short of the most exalted conception of its mission were it to abstain from embodying its pacifie and fraternal sentiments in déclarations tending to promote national stability and guarantee just international relations among the nations of the continent:

Be it therefore

Resolved, — That it earnestly recommends to the Governments therein represented the adoption of the following déclarations : —

First. That the principle of conquest shall not , during the continuant of the Treaty of Arbitration, be recognized as admissible under American public law.

Second. That ail cessions of territory made during the continuance of the Treaty of Arbitration shall be void if made under threats of war or the présence of an armed force.

Third. Any nation from which such cessions shall be exacted may demand that the validity of the cessions so made shall be submitted to arbitration.

Fourth. Any renunciation of the right to arbitration made under the conditions named in the second section shall be null and void.