Law-ref.org THE PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES (2)
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... In disputes of an international nature involving neither honour nor vital interests, and arising from a difference of opinion on points of facts, the Contracting Powers deem it expedient and desirable that the parties who have not been able to come to an agreement by means of diplomacy, should, as far as circumstances allow, institute an International Commission of Inquiry, to facilitate a solution of these disputes by elucidating the facts by means of an impartial and conscientious investigation. ...


... Every investigation, and every examination of a locality, must be made in the presence of the agents and counsel of the parties or after they have been duly summoned. ...