 the League of Nations, a few multilateral and several bilateral documents were adopted [II] which, besides the regulation of the specific contractual object, incorporated clauses concerning minority protection as well.
[I] Treaties under the guarantee of the League of Nations:
1. Agreement between Sweden and Finland concerning the Åland Islands, unanimously approved by the Council of League of Nations on 27 June 1921.
2. Geneva Convention on Upper Silesia between Germany and Poland, signed on 15 May 1922: similar to the preceding documents, it was adopted with the assistance of the League Nations, and passed under its protection subsequent to 20 June 1922.
[II] Treaties independent of the guarantee of the League of Nations:
3. Treaty of Brünn between Austria and Czechoslovakia on citizenship and education, signed on 7 June 1920.
4. Treaty between Poland and Czechoslovakia (Warsaw, 23 April 1925). It contains primarily provisions concerning the minorities' educational affairs.
5. Treaty between Yugoslavia and Romania concerning the mutual protection of the Romanian minority in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav minority in Romania (Belgrade, 10 March 1933).
6. Treaty between Bulgaria and Greece (Neuilly, 27 November 1919) on reciprocal emigration and immigration. (A further protocol was signed on 29 September 1924 on the protection of Greek minorities in Bulgaria and, on the part of the League of Nations, Bulgarian minorities in Greece. It was signed by the representatives of Bulgaria and Greece, the president of the Council, and the secretary-general.).
7. Treaty between the Allied Powers and Lithuania (Paris, 8 May 1924), on the legal status of the Memel region annexed to Lithuania.
8. Convention between the Free City of Danzig and Poland (9 November 1920), in which Danzig pledges to apply the provisions of the Polish Minorities Treaty with respect to its minorities.
2.5. Minorities Declarations
So far, we have discussed the minorities treaties and the relevant chapters of the peace treaties from among the sources of itemized minority law. Besides these, certain East Central European countries issued unilateral declarations in front of the League of Nations. The Assembly did not consider these declarations as a general criterion of a state's admission in the organisation - although Lord Robert Cecil, representative of South Africa proposed exactly that. The Assembly expressed its desire (!) only with respect to certain countries. More exactly, it recommended that they take appropriate measures concerning the protection of minorities in the case of their admission into the organisation:
"In the case when the Baltic and Caucasian states and Albania should be admitted into the League of Nations, the Assembly recommends that they take measures for the protection of minorities in conformity with the general principles established in the minorities treaties, and come to an agreement with the Council about the method of their implementation."
1. Albanian Declaration on the Protection of Minorities (2 October 1921, under the protection of the League of Nations subsequent to 17 February 1922). It complied with the wish of the Assembly: the text of the Declaration corresponded with the relevant provisions of the minorities treaties.
2. Lithuanian Declaration on the Protection of Minorities (12 May 1922, under the protection of the League of Nations subsequent to 11 December 1923). This too complied with the Assembly Recommendation.
3. Latvian Declaration on the Protection of Minorities (7 July 1923, under the protection of the League of Nations subsequent to 1 September 1923).
4. The Estonian Declaration on the Protection of Minorities (17 September 1923) is based on a resolution, in which the Council of the League of Nations endorsed the report of an Estonian representative on the situation of minorities in Estonia on 28 August 1923.
5. Iraq issued a minorities declaration on 30 May 1932 (Articles 1-10 under the protection of the League of Nations subsequent to the same date).
Accordingly, the above-mentioned five declarations, just a