Peace Conferences
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PEACE CONFERENCES; the official title of the two international conferences held at the Hague,Netherlands, in 1899 and 1907.
[edit] 1st conference 1918
1st conference was organized at the instance of the emperor Nicholas II of Russia, and it was held on May 18 to July 29.
The chief object of the first conference, as set out in the note of Count Mouraviev, the Russian minister of foreign affairs (January 11, 1899), was to arrive at an understanding not to increase for a fixed period the present effectives of the armed military and naval forces, and at the same time not to increase the budgets pertaining there to; and a preliminar examination of the means by which even a reduction might be effected in future in the forces and budgets above.
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[edit] 2nd conference 1907
2nd conference was proposed by John Hay , United States Secretary of State, in 1904, and it was organized by Russian government on June 15 to October 18, 1907. This conference resulted in 13 conventions which were concerned with clarifying and amplifying the understandings arrived at in the 1st conference.
The 3rd conference was adviced to be held within eight years time. However, it did not come about, due to the World War I.
