Artikel VIII

The High Contracting Parties will enter into negotiations for the conclusion of a comprehensive modern treaty or treaties of friendship, commerce, navigation and consular rights upon the request of either of them or in any case within six months after the cessation of the hostilities in the war against the common enemies in which they are both now engaged. The treaty or treaties to be thus negotiated should be based upon the principles of international law and practice as reflected in modern international procedure and in the modern treaties which each of the High Contracting Parties has respectively concluded with other Powers in recent years.
Pending the conclusion of the treaty or treaties referred to in the preceding paragraph, each of the High Contracting Parties agrees that the consular officers of the other will be permitted to exercise their functions as such in accordance with general principles of international law in all ports, cities and places of the former which are or may be open to consular officers of any foreign country.
Pending the conclusion of the treaty or treaties referred to in the first paragraph, if any questions affecting the rights in the territory of the Republic of China of Netherlands nationals or companies or of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, should arise in the future and if these questions are not covered by the present Treaty and the Exchange of Notes or by the provisions of existing treaties, conventions or agreements between the High Contracting Parties, not abrogated by or inconsistent with this Treaty and the Exchange of Notes, such questions shall be discussed by the representatives of the two Governments and shall be decided in accordance with the generally accepted principles of international law and with modern international practice.