Article 13 The consultations shall be initiated at the request addressed to the Governing Board of the Pan American Union by any of the Signatory States which has ratified the Treaty. Article 14 In the voting referred to in this Treaty only the representatives of the Signatory States which have ratified the Treaty may take part. Article 15 The Governing Board of the Pan American Union shall act in all matters concerning this Treaty as an organ of liaison among the Signatory States which have ratified this Treaty and between these States and the United Nations. Article 16 The decisions of the Governing Board of the Pan American Union referred to in Articles 13 and 15 above shall be taken by an absolute majority of the Members entitled to vote. Article 17 The Organ of Consultation shall take its decisions by a vote of twothirds of the Signatory States which have ratified the Treaty. Article 18 In the case of a situation or dispute between American States, the parties directly interested shall be excluded from the voting referred to in the two preceding Articles. Article 19 To constitute a quorum in all the meetings referred to in the previous Articles, it shall be necessary that the number of States represented shall be at least equal to the number of votes necessary for the taking of the decision. Article 20 Decisions which require the application of the measures specified in Article 8 shall be binding upon all the Signatory States which have ratified this Treaty, with the sole exception that no State shall be required to use armed force without its consent. Article 21 The measures agreed upon by the Organ of Consultation shall be executed through the procedures and agencies now existing or those which may in the future be established. Article 22 This Treaty shall come into effect between the States which ratify it as soon as the ratifications of two-thirds of the Signatory States have been deposited. Article 23 This Treaty is open for signature by the American States at the city of Rio de Janeiro, and shall be ratified by the Signatory States as soon as possible in accordance with their respective constitutional processes. The ratifications shall be deposited with the Pan American Union, which shall notify the Signatory States of each deposit. Such notification shall be considered as an exchange of ratifications. Article 24 The present Treaty shall be registered with the Secretariat of the United Nations through the Pan American Union, when two-thirds of the Signatory States have deposited their ratifications. Article 25 This Treaty shall remain in force indefinitely, but may be denounced by any High Contracting Party by a notification in writing to the Pan American Union, which shall inform all the other High Contracting Parties of each notification of denunciation received. After the expiration of two years from the date of the receipt by the Pan American Union of a notification of denunciation by any High Contracting Party, the present Treaty shall cease to be in force with respect to such State, but shall remain in full force and effect with respect to all the other High Contracting Parties. Article 26 The principles and fundamental provisions of this Treaty shall be incorporated in the Organic Pact of the Inter-American System. In witness whereof, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, having deposited their full powers found to be in due and proper form, sign this Treaty on behalf of their respective Governments, on the dates appearing opposite their signatures. Done in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in four texts respectively in the English, French, Portuguese and Spanish languages, on the second of September nineteen hundred forty-seven. Reservation of Honduras: The Delegation of Honduras, in signing the present Treaty and in connection with Article 9, section (b), does so with the reservation that the boundary between Honduras and Nicaragua is definitively demarcated by the Joint Boundary Commission of nineteen hundred and nineteen hundred and one, starting from a point in the Gulf of Fonseca, in the Pacific Ocean, to Portillo de Teotecacinte and, from this point to the Atlantic, by the line that His Majesty the King of Spain's arbitral award established on the twenty third of December of nineteen hundred and six. [Here follow the signatures to the Treaty.] APPENDIX TWO Documents Pertaining to Work of the Conference PART 1 Proposals for Inter-American Treaty of Bolivia A. PROPOSALS FOR THE PREAMBLE The American Republics, desirous of maintaining and consolidating their relations of friendship and good neighborliness, which are based on law and solidarity, and to strengthen the inter-American agreements which they have subscribed in order to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security: Whereas Resolution XVIII of the Mexico City Conference recom EDITOR'S NOTE: Proposals for the treaty were first submitted by a number of the American Republics in December 1945. Several of these countries submitted revised proposals at the time the Conference convened. Other governments presented proposals only at the Conference itself. Where there are two sets of proposals, these have been designated by Roman numerals I and II. The proposals have been broken down according to subject matter. In many cases it will be found that the saine paragraph falls into more than one category. Where it has not been feasible to break the paragraph apart it has been printed undivided in all pertinent sections. It has not been possible to obtain original documents from which to print the proposals and draft resolutions in appendix two. 66 mends the conclusion of a treaty to avoid and repel threats or acts of aggression against any of them; Whereas Articles 33 and 52 of the United Nations Charter, signed June 26, 1945 at San Francisco, California, provide for recourse to regional organizations and arrangements for the pacific settlement of local conflicts; Whereas Part III of the Act of Chapultepec stipulates that every attack of a State against the integrity or the inviolability of the territory, or against the sovereignty or political independence of an American State shall be considered as an act of aggression against the other States; Have agreed to conclude the present Treaty on Reciprocal Assistance and American Solidarity and for this purpose have designated their Plenipotentiaries, as follows: Brazil The American Republics animated by the desire to consolidate their relations of friendship and good neighborliness and convinced that by mutual protection they may contribute to the maintenance of peace in general; considering, furthermore, that Resolution VIII of the Mexico City Conference recommended the conclusion of a treaty to prevent or repel threats or acts of aggression against any of them; considering finally that the Charter of the United Nations signed in San Francisco, California, on June 26, 1945, expressly provides in Articles 33 and 52 for the resort to regional agencies and agreements for the pacific settlement of local disputes; have resolved to conclude a treaty and for this purpose have designated their plenipotentiaries, who are: and who, after having exhibited their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed on the following provisions: Chile The Governments of the American Republics, as signatories of the Act of Chapultepec on Reciprocal Assistance and American Solidarity, contained in Resolution VIII of the Final Act of the InterAmerican Conference on Problems of War and Peace, signed in Mexico City on March 8, 1945, and as signatories of the United Na-· tions Charter, signed in San Francisco, California, on June 26, 1945; Determined to carry into effect the agreement contained in paragraph 6, Part I of the said Act of Chapultepec, according to which the respective Governments shall, to the end that the principles and procedures stipulated in the said Act shall conform with the consti |