Israel today became the 34th country to sign the United Nations Opium Protocol, which is an interim agreement anticipating the conclusion of a single convention to deal with narcotic drugs as a whole. Mordecai Kidron, member of the Israel delegation at the U.N., signed the Protocol this morning in the office of Constantin Stavropolous, head of the UN legal department.
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