711.60i12A/4
The Minister at Riga (Coleman)9
to the Secretary of
State
Riga, June 4, 1928.
[Received June
18.]
No. 5346
Sir: Referring to the Department’s Instruction
No. 515, of April 17, 1928,10 enclosing for the Legation’s information a copy of a
note which was forwarded on April 16, 1928, to the Estonian Consul
General in New York, transmitting, for the consideration of the
Government of Estonia and as a basis for negotiation, drafts of a treaty
of arbitration and of a treaty of conciliation between Estonia and the
United States, I now have the honor to transmit herewith copies in
quintuplicate of a Note, dated May 26, 1928, from the Estonian Foreign
Office, in reply to the Department’s Note under reference.
I have [etc.]
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[Enclosure]
The Estonian Assistant Minister for Foreign
Affairs (Schmidt) to the American
Minister (Coleman)
Your Excellency: With a Note dated April
16th, 1928, the Secretary of the Department of State of the United
States of America was good enough to transmit, through agency of the
Estonian Consul General at New York, for the consideration of my
Government two drafts as bases for negotiation of treaties of
arbitration and conciliation between Estonia and the United States
of America. I am glad to be able now to inform Your Excellency that
my Government entirely concurs in the views expressed by the
Secretary of the Department of State that the adoption of treaties
such as those suggested shall promote the friendly relations between
the peoples of our two countries and advance the pacific settlement
of international disputes. At the same time I have the honour to
inform Your Excellency that my Government is quite prepared to
negotiate treaties along the lines of the two drafts. The eventual
alterations, which my Government may find appropriate to propound, I
hope to be able to submit to Your Excellency for consideration at an
early date.
I avail myself [etc.]
