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See also:
Status
All dates: DD/MM/YYYY
State |
Notes |
Date of accession |
| Lesotho |
|
18/06/1981 |
| France |
|
06/08/1982 |
| Syrian Arab Republic |
|
19/10/1982 |
| Egypt |
|
06/12/1982 |
| Hungary |
|
16/06/1983 |
| Argentina |
|
19/07/1983 |
| Zambia |
|
06/06/1986 |
| China |
|
11/12/1986 |
| Italy |
|
11/12/1986 |
| United States of America |
|
11/12/1986 |
| Finland |
|
15/12/1987 |
| Sweden |
|
15/12/1987 |
| Austria |
|
29/12/1987 |
| Mexico |
|
29/12/1987 |
| Australia |
|
17/03/1988 |
| Norway |
|
20/07/1988 |
| Denmark |
|
14/02/1989 |
| Belarus |
|
09/10/1989 |
| Germany | (a) | 21/12/1989 |
| Ukraine |
|
03/01/1990 |
| Chile |
|
07/02/1990 |
| Switzerland |
|
21/02/1990 |
| Iraq |
|
05/03/1990 |
| Bulgaria |
|
09/07/1990 |
| Spain |
|
24/07/1990 |
| Russian Federation |
|
16/08/1990 |
| Netherlands |
|
13/12/1990 |
| Guinea |
|
23/01/1991 |
| Canada |
|
23/04/1991 |
| Romania |
|
22/05/1991 |
| Ecuador |
|
27/01/1992 |
| Uganda |
|
12/02/1992 |
| Slovakia | (b) | 28/05/1993 |
| Estonia |
|
20/09/1993 |
| Czech Republic | (b) | 30/09/1993 |
| Slovenia |
|
07/01/1994 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
|
12/01/1994 |
| Georgia |
|
16/08/1994 |
| New Zealand |
|
22/09/1994 |
| Republic of Moldova |
|
13/10/1994 |
| Cuba |
|
02/11/1994 |
| Lithuania |
|
18/01/1995 |
| Singapore |
|
16/02/1995 |
| Poland |
|
19/05/1995 |
| Belgium |
|
31/10/1996 |
| Uzbekistan |
|
27/11/1996 |
| Luxembourg |
|
30/01/1997 |
| Latvia |
|
31/07/1997 |
| Mongolia |
|
31/12/1997 |
| Greece |
|
12/01/1998 |
| Croatia | (c) | 08/06/1998 |
| Burundi |
|
04/09/1998 |
| Uruguay |
|
25/01/1999 |
| Peru |
|
25/03/1999 |
| Kyrgyzstan |
|
11/05/1999 |
| Mauritania |
|
20/08/1999 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
|
12/09/2000 |
| Serbia | (d) | 12/03/2001 |
| Iceland |
|
10/05/2001 |
| Colombia |
|
10/07/2001 |
| Israel |
|
22/01/2002 |
| Honduras |
|
10/10/2002 |
| Republic of Korea |
|
17/02/2004 |
| Gabon |
|
15/12/2004 |
| Cyprus |
|
07/03/2005 |
| Liberia |
|
16/09/2005 |
| Paraguay |
|
13/01/2006 |
| Montenegro |
|
23/10/2006 |
| The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
|
22/11/2006 |
| El Salvador |
|
27/11/2006 |
| Japan |
|
01/07/2008 |
| Lebanon |
|
21/11/2008 |
| Armenia |
|
02/12/2008 |
| Albania |
|
13/05/2009 |
| Dominican Republic |
|
07/06/2010 |
| Turkey |
|
07/07/2010 |
| Benin |
|
29/07/2011 |
| San Marino |
|
22/02/2012 |
| Brazil |
|
04/03/2013 |
Notes
(a) The Convention was signed by the former German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1981 and ratified on 23 February 1989 and entered into force on 1 March 1990.
(b) The former Czechoslovakia signed the Convention on 1 September 1981 and deposited an instrument of ratification on 5 March 1990, with the Convention entering into force for the former Czechoslovakia on 1 April 1991. On 28 May and 30 September 1993, respectively, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, deposited instruments of succession, with effect from 1 January 1993, the date of succession of both States.
(c) Upon succeeding to the Convention, Croatia has decided, on the basis of the Constitutional Decision on Sovereignty and Independence of the Republic of Croatia of 25 June 1991 and the Decision of the Croatian Parliament of 8 October 1991, and by virtue of succession of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in respect of the territory of Croatia, to be considered a party to the Convention with effect from 8 October 1991, the date on which Croatia severed all constitutional and legal connections with the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and took over its international obligations.
(d) The former Yugoslavia signed and ratified the Convention on 11 April 1980 and 27 March 1985, respectively. On 12 March 2001, the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia declared the following: "The Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, having considered [the Convention], succeeds to the same and undertakes faithfully to perform and carry out the stipulations therein contained as from April 27, 1992, the date upon which the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia assumed responsibility for its international relations."