is not applicable to the questions which may have arisen or which may arise between a citizen, an association, or a corporation of one of the parties and the other contracting state when the judges or courts of the latter state are, in accordance with its legislation, competent to settle the controversy.
Reservation of the Delegation of Paraguay:
I sign this treaty with the reservation that Paraguay excludes from its application questions which directly or indirectly affect the integrity of the national territory and are not merely questions of frontiers or boundaries.
Mexican Reservation:
Mexico makes the reservation that differences, which fall under the jurisdiction of the courts, shall not form a subject of the procedure provided for by the Convention, except in case of denial of justice, and until after the judgment passed by the competent national authority has been placed in the class of res judicata.
The Delegation of El Salvador to the Conference on Conciliation and Arbitration assembled in Washington accepts and signs the General Treaty of Inter-American Arbitration concluded this day by said Conference, with the following reservations or restrictions:
- After the words of paragraph 1 of Article 1 reading: “under treaty or otherwise,” the following words are to be added: “subsequent to the present Convention.” The article continues without any other modification.
- Paragraph (a) of Article 2 is accepted by the Delegation without the final words which read: “and are not controlled by international law,” which should be considered as eliminated.
