ABSTRACT

In disputes of an international nature involving neither honour nor essential interests, and arising from a difference of opinion on points of fact, the Contracting Parties deem it expedient and desirable that the parties who have not been able to come to an agreement by means of diplomacy should, as far as circumstances allow, institute an international commission of inquiry, to facilitate a solution of these disputes by elucidating the facts by means of an impartial and conscientious investigation.7