[The protocol was not signed for Chile and Ecuador; however, the two countries, following a protracted debate on a point of order involving the plan adopted, accepted a solution which made them parties to the protocol. Venezuela's withdrawal from the Conference on January 14, 1902, with retroactive effect to and from December 31, 1901, apparently invalidated its signature to the protocol.

The delegates to the Third International American Conference adopted unanimously on Aug. 7, 1906, a resolution "to ratify adherence to the principle of arbitration" and "to endeavor to secure . . . the celebration of a General Arbitration Convention." For text, see Report of the Delegates of the United States to the Third International Conference of the American States, Held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 21 to August 26, 1906 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 ), p. 97.]