The Kellogg-Briand Pact, or Pact of Paris, officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy, is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts among them. It was signed by Germany, France and the United States on 27 August 1928 and by most other states soon after, named for its authors, U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg and French foreign minister Aristide Briand, and remains formally in effect though it had no enforcement mechanism and could not prevent the Second World War. It nonetheless served as the legal basis for the concept of a crime against peace, under which the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals tried and executed the leaders held responsible for starting that war.
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1. Wikipedia: Kellogg-Briand Pact
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact or Pact of Paris (officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy) is a 1928 international agreement on peace in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them".
2. The Avalon Project, Yale Law School: Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928
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the original of which Treaty, being in the English and the French languages, is word for word as follows
Kellogg-Briand Pact (Wikipedia)
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The Kellogg-Briand Pact or Pact of Paris (officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy) is a 1928 international agreement on peace in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them".
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