Law-ref.org THE PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES (1)
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PREAMBLE     [go to this PREAMBLE]
... Convinced that the permanent institution of a tribunal of arbitration, accessible to all, in the midst of the independent Powers, will contribute effectively to this result; ...


ARTICLE-20     [go to this ARTICLE]
... With the object of facilitating an immediate recourse to arbitration for international differences, which it has not been possible to settle by diplomacy, the Signatory Powers undertake to organize a Permanent Court of Arbitration, accessible at all times and operating, unless otherwise stipulated by the parties, in accordance with the Rules of Procedure inserted in the present Convention. ...


ARTICLE-21     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The Permanent Court shall be competent for all arbitration cases, unless the parties agree to institute a special Tribunal. ...


ARTICLE-24     [go to this ARTICLE]
... When the Signatory Powers desire to have recourse to the Permanent Court for the settlement of a difference that has arisen between them, the Arbitrators called upon to form the competent Tribunal to decide this difference, must be chosen from the general list of Members of the Court. ...


ARTICLE-26     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The jurisdiction of the Permanent Court may, within the conditions laid down in the Regulations, be extended to disputes between non-Signatory Powers, or between Signatory Powers and non-Signatory Powers, if the parties are agreed on recourse to this Tribunal. ...


ARTICLE-27     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The Signatory Powers consider it their duty, if a serious dispute threatens to break out between two or more of them, to remind these latter that the Permanent Court is open to them. ...
... Consequently, they declare that the fact of reminding the conflicting parties of the provisions of the present Convention, and the advice given to them, in the highest interests of peace, to have recourse to the Permanent Court, can only be regarded as friendly actions. ...


ARTICLE-28     [go to this ARTICLE]
... A Permanent Administrative Council composed of the Diplomatic Representatives of the Signatory Powers accredited to The Hague and of the Netherlands Minister for Foreign Affairs, who will act as President, shall be instituted in this town as soon as possible after the ratification of the present Act by at least nine Powers. ...


ARTICLE-32     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The duties of Arbitrator may be conferred on one Arbitrator alone or on several Arbitrators selected by the parties as they please, or chosen by them from the Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration established by the present Act. ...