OBSERVATIONS ON DRAFT PEACE TREATIES



  Those are in fact the principles set out in Article 3 of the Treaty
and they have the advantage of not offending national sensibilities by
creating a regime of discrimination.
Article 4.
  Roumania applies all the provisions laid down in Article 4. There
can therefore be no question of her completing them.
  In order to avoid any misunderstanding as to the interpretation or
the execution of the Treaty, we consider accordingly that in Article 4
the words "undertakes to complete these measures" should be deleted.
Article 7.
  The Roumanian Delegation would like to have an opportunity of
giving the Conference its views on the questions relating to Roumania
in the Peace Treaties referred to in this Article, particularly the
Treaty with Hungary.
  If Roumania had to undertake forthwith to recognize these Treaties
as well as the agreements or arrangements which have already been
or will in future be reached in relation to the countries mentioned in
this Article and to which she is not or will not be a party, it should
at least be made clear that:
  (a) These treaties, agreements or arrangements should not involve
Roumania or her nationals in obligations or burdens nor deprive them
of their existing rights and interest, beyond what is laid down in the
present Treaty;
  (b) That the States referred to in the present Article should
similarly recognize the full force of the Treaty of Peace with
Roumania;
  (c) That the treaties, agreements or arrangements in question
should not be such as to impair Roumania's rights to reparation aris-
ing whether from the Treaties which terminated the first World War
or the subsequent agreements relevant thereto.
Article 8.
  There is no precedent for a Peace Treaty re-establishing peaceful
relations between two belligerent countries without the simultaneous
participation of both interested parties.
  Yet this is what Article 8 of the Draft Peace Treaty with Roumania
does when it says that the state of war between Roumania and Hun-
gary will terminate upon the coming into force of the present Treaty
and the Treaty of Peace between the Allied Powers and Hungary.
  Although Roumania declared war on Hungary and the Roumanian
Armed Forces collaborated with those of the United Nations in the
war against Germany and Hungary, there will be no Peace Treaty
between Roumania and Hungary.



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