SAIIA SOUTH AFRICAN DIPLOMATS ABROAD.pdf

"The Government of the I 'nion of South Africa (hereinafter
called "the Union Government") and the Government oi
^ the Portuguese Republic (hereinafter called "the Portuguese
Government") being desirous of regulating the entry of native
labourers from the colony of Mozambique into the Province of
the Transvaal, Railways and other Commercial Intercourse
between the Union of South Africa (hereinafter called "the
Union") and the Colony of Mozambique (hereinafter called
"Mozambique") have resolved to enter into a Convention for
the purpose and have appointed as their representatives for
that end, that is td say:
(There follows a list of the three representatives on each
side and their respective functions);
"Who, having communicated their respective Powers,
found in good and due have agreed as follows:
„. . (follows text)
U. J-nnLftt (1 jn witness whereof the representatives of the respective
f;.(Governments have signed the present Convention and have
attached thereto their seals.
; -U^-^uiC "Done at Pretoria in triplicate in English, Afrikaans and
Portuguese texts on the eleventh day of September, 1928."
(Signatures)
Another type of agreement—the multilateral—is illud
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strated by the following:
- 7—/ (/"Universal Pos stal Convention concluded between
f^U^» Afghanistan, the Union Unio of South^Africa, Albania, Germany, the
United States of America, . . . etc., etc., etc., . . , The Kingdom
of Yugoslavia,
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* "The undersigned plenipotentiaries of the Governments
of the countries abovementioned, being assembled in Congress
at B uenos Aires by virtue of Article 13 of the Universal Postal
Convention, concluded at Cairo on March 20, 1934, have by
common consent and subject to ratification, revised the said
Convention to read as follows:
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"In faith of which the Plenipotentiaries of the Governments
of the countries above enumerated have signed the present
Convention in one copy, which will be filed in the archives of
the Government of the Argentine Republic and a copy of which
will be delivered to each Party.
"Done at Buenos Aires, May 23, 1939
' 'For the Union of South Africa
(signed) J. N. Redelinghuys,
H.C.Wain etc.,"
One of the most important of all recent international agreements
to which the Union is a party, that commonly known as
"Bretton Woods" is extraordinary simple in its wording:
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