The Council of People’s Commissars of the Russian Socialist
Federative Soviet Republic appoints Maxim Maksimovich Litvinov, a member of the collegium of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, as its authorized representative to resolve
all matters pertaining to the impending resumption of trade relations, vested with all necessary powers for this purpose, including—by virtue of these powers—the right, in all of the aforementioned matters, to conduct negotiations on behalf of the Government of the Russian Republic,
to conclude all manner of agreements and treaties, including