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Hague Peace Conference

noun

  1. a meeting held at The Hague, Netherlands, in 1899, that established The Hague Permanent Court of Arbitration.
  2. a meeting held at The Hague, Netherlands, in 1907, that defined prisoner-of-war treatment, maritime warfare, and wartime neutrality.


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It was set up by The Hague Peace Conference of 1899, which was convened by Russian Czar Nicholas II and set up some of the first structures of international law.

The last two were delegates to the First Hague Peace Conference.

In 1899 he acted as naval expert at the Hague Peace Conference, and on the 1st of July 1899 was appointed commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean.

In the almost universal demoralization of foreign policy which has followed The Hague Peace Conference of 1899, it has perhaps been impossible for a single statesman to tread a straight path.

At 19, he was secretary of China's delegation at the Second Hague Peace Conference; at 30, he served on the Reparations Commission at Versailles.

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