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See also:
Status
All dates: DD/MM/YYYY
State |
Notes |
Date of accession |
| Israel |
|
05/01/1959 |
| Morocco |
|
12/02/1959 |
| Egypt |
|
09/03/1959 |
| Syrian Arab Republic |
|
09/03/1959 |
| France |
|
26/06/1959 |
| Thailand |
|
21/12/1959 |
| Cambodia |
|
05/01/1960 |
| India |
|
13/07/1960 |
| Russian Federation |
|
24/08/1960 |
| Ukraine |
|
10/10/1960 |
| Belarus |
|
15/11/1960 |
| Norway |
|
14/03/1961 |
| Austria |
|
02/05/1961 |
| Japan |
|
20/06/1961 |
| Germany | (a) | 30/06/1961 |
| Romania |
|
13/09/1961 |
| Poland |
|
03/10/1961 |
| Bulgaria |
|
10/10/1961 |
| Ecuador |
|
03/01/1962 |
| Finland |
|
19/01/1962 |
| Hungary |
|
05/03/1962 |
| Sri Lanka |
|
09/04/1962 |
| Greece |
|
16/07/1962 |
| Madagascar |
|
16/07/1962 |
| Central African Republic |
|
15/10/1962 |
| Netherlands |
|
24/04/1964 |
| United Republic of Tanzania |
|
13/10/1964 |
| Niger |
|
14/10/1964 |
| Switzerland |
|
01/06/1965 |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
|
14/02/1966 |
| Philippines |
|
06/07/1967 |
| Tunisia |
|
17/07/1967 |
| Ghana |
|
09/04/1968 |
| Italy |
|
31/01/1969 |
| Nigeria |
|
17/03/1970 |
| United States of America |
|
30/09/1970 |
| Mexico |
|
14/04/1971 |
| Botswana |
|
20/12/1971 |
| Sweden |
|
28/01/1972 |
| Denmark |
|
22/12/1972 |
| Republic of Korea |
|
08/02/1973 |
| Benin |
|
16/05/1974 |
| Cuba |
|
30/12/1974 |
| Australia |
|
26/03/1975 |
| Holy See |
|
14/05/1975 |
| Belgium |
|
18/08/1975 |
| Chile |
|
04/09/1975 |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
|
24/09/1975 |
| South Africa |
|
03/05/1976 |
| Spain |
|
12/05/1977 |
| Kuwait |
|
28/04/1978 |
| San Marino |
|
17/05/1979 |
| Colombia |
|
25/09/1979 |
| Jordan |
|
15/11/1979 |
| Cyprus |
|
29/12/1980 |
| Ireland |
|
12/05/1981 |
| Indonesia |
|
07/10/1981 |
| Monaco |
|
02/06/1982 |
| New Zealand |
|
06/01/1983 |
| Uruguay |
|
30/03/1983 |
| Djibouti |
|
14/06/1983 |
| Luxembourg |
|
09/09/1983 |
| Haiti |
|
05/12/1983 |
| Guatemala |
|
21/03/1984 |
| Panama |
|
10/10/1984 |
| Malaysia |
|
05/11/1985 |
| Canada |
|
12/05/1986 |
| Singapore |
|
21/08/1986 |
| China |
|
22/01/1987 |
| Burkina Faso |
|
23/03/1987 |
| Costa Rica |
|
26/10/1987 |
| Cameroon |
|
19/02/1988 |
| Bahrain |
|
06/04/1988 |
| Peru |
|
07/07/1988 |
| Dominica |
|
28/10/1988 |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
|
02/02/1989 |
| Algeria |
|
07/02/1989 |
| Kenya |
|
10/02/1989 |
| Argentina |
|
14/03/1989 |
| Lesotho |
|
13/06/1989 |
| Guinea |
|
23/01/1991 |
| Côte d'Ivoire |
|
01/02/1991 |
| Uganda |
|
12/02/1992 |
| Latvia |
|
14/04/1992 |
| Bangladesh |
|
06/05/1992 |
| Turkey |
|
02/07/1992 |
| Slovenia |
|
06/07/1992 |
| Barbados |
|
16/03/1993 |
| Slovakia |
|
28/05/1993 |
| Croatia |
|
26/07/1993 |
| Estonia |
|
30/08/1993 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
|
01/09/1993 |
| Czech Republic |
|
30/09/1993 |
| The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
|
10/03/1994 |
| Saudi Arabia |
|
19/04/1994 |
| Georgia |
|
02/06/1994 |
| Mali |
|
08/09/1994 |
| Zimbabwe |
|
29/09/1994 |
| Senegal |
|
17/10/1994 |
| Portugal |
|
18/10/1994 |
| Mongolia |
|
24/10/1994 |
| Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) |
|
08/02/1995 |
| Lithuania |
|
14/03/1995 |
| Bolivia (Plurinational State of) |
|
28/04/1995 |
| Viet Nam |
|
12/09/1995 |
| Kazakhstan |
|
20/11/1995 |
| Uzbekistan |
|
07/02/1996 |
| Mauritius |
|
19/06/1996 |
| Brunei Darussalam |
|
25/07/1996 |
| Kyrgyzstan |
|
18/12/1996 |
| Mauritania |
|
30/01/1997 |
| Paraguay |
|
08/10/1997 |
| Armenia |
|
29/12/1997 |
| El Salvador |
|
26/02/1998 |
| Nepal |
|
04/03/1998 |
| Mozambique |
|
11/06/1998 |
| Lao People's Democratic Republic |
|
17/06/1998 |
| Lebanon |
|
11/08/1998 |
| Republic of Moldova |
|
18/09/1998 |
| Oman |
|
25/02/1999 |
| Azerbaijan |
|
29/02/2000 |
| Malta |
|
22/06/2000 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
|
12/09/2000 |
| Honduras |
|
03/10/2000 |
| Serbia | (b) | 12/03/2001 |
| Albania |
|
27/06/2001 |
| Iran (Islamic Republic of) |
|
15/10/2001 |
| Iceland |
|
24/01/2002 |
| Zambia |
|
14/03/2002 |
| Dominican Republic |
|
11/04/2002 |
| Brazil |
|
07/06/2002 |
| Jamaica |
|
10/07/2002 |
| Qatar |
|
30/12/2002 |
| Nicaragua |
|
24/09/2003 |
| Afghanistan |
|
30/11/2004 |
| Pakistan |
|
14/07/2005 |
| Liberia |
|
16/09/2005 |
| United Arab Emirates |
|
21/08/2006 |
| Montenegro |
|
23/10/2006 |
| Gabon |
|
15/12/2006 |
| Bahamas |
|
20/12/2006 |
| Marshall Islands |
|
21/12/2006 |
| Rwanda |
|
31/10/2008 |
| Cook Islands |
|
12/01/2009 |
| Fiji |
|
27/09/2010 |
| Liechtenstein |
|
07/07/2011 |
| Tajikistan |
|
14/08/2012 |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
|
20/11/2012 |
Notes
(a) The former German Democratic Republic acceded to the Convention on 20 February 1975.
(b) Succession: the former Yugoslavia acceded to the Convention on 26 February 1982.