Convention for the Suppression of the Illicit Traffic in Dangerous Drugs

Signed at Geneva on 26 June 1936 and amended by the Protocol signed at Lake Success, New York, on 11 December 1946

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 10 October 1947, the date on which the amendments to the Convention, as set forth in the annex to the Protocol of 11 December 1946, entered into force in accordance with paragraph 2 of article VII of the Protocol.

Participant


Definitive signature or acceptance of the Protocol of 11 December 1946	Ratification, accession (a) in respect of the Convention as amended

Austria 17 May 1950

Belgium 11 Dec 1946

Brazil 17 Dec 1946

Cambodia 3 Oct 1951 a

Cameroon 15 Jan 1962 a

Canada 11 Dec 1946

Chile 21 Nov 1972 a

China 1 11 Dec 1946

Colombia 11 Dec 1946

Côte d'Ivoire 20 Dec 1961 a

Cuba 9 Aug 1967

Dominican Republic. 9 Jun 1958 a

Egypt 13 Sep 1948

Ethiopia 9 Sep 1947 a

France 10 Oct 1947

Greece 21 Feb 1949

Haiti 31 May 1951

India 11 Dec 1946

Indonesia 3 Apr 1958 a

Israel 16 May 1952 a

Italy 3 Apr 1961 a

Japan 7 Sep 1955

Jordan 7 May 1958 a

Lao People's
Democratic
Republic 13 Jul 1951 a

Liechtenstein 24 May 1961 a

Luxembourg 28 Jun 1955 a

Madagascar 11 Dec 1974 a

Malawi 8 Jun 1965 a

Mexico 6 May 1955

Netherlands 2, 3 [19 Mar 1959]

Romania 11 Oct 1961

Rwanda 15 Jul 1981 a

Spain 4 5 Jun 1970

Sri Lanka 4 Dec 1957 a

Switzerland 31 Dec 1952

Turkey 11 Dec 1946

Declarations and Reservations
(Unless otherwise indicated, the declarations and reservations were made
upon ratification or accession.)

cuba

The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba expressly reserves its position on the provisions of article 17 of the Convention, being ready to settle any dispute which may arise on the interpretation or application of the Convention bilaterally, by means of diplomatic consultations.

italy

. . . In exercise of the right accorded to it by article 13, paragraph 2, of the said Convention, the Government of Italy desires that, in the case of letters of request concerning narcotic drugs, the procedure hitherto followed in previous relations with the other Contracting States should continue to be used and, failing that, the diplomatic channel, provided, however, that the method specified in article 13, paragraph 1, sub-paragraph (c) should be adopted in cases of emergency.

mexico

In accepting the provisions of articles 11 and 12 of this Convention, the Government of the United States of Mexico wishes to state explicitly that its Central Office will exercise the powers granted to it by the said Convention unless such powers have been expressly conferred by the General Constitution of the Republic on an agency of a constituent State, being an agency established before the date of the entry into force of this Convention, and that the Government of the United States of Mexico reserves the right to impose in its territory-as it has already done-measures more severe than those laid down by the Convention itself, for the restriction of the cultivation or the manufacture, extraction, possession, offering for sale, importation or exportation of or traffic in the drugs to which the present Convention refers.

Notes:

1 See note concerning signatures, ratifications, accessions, etc., on behalf of China (note in chapter I.1).

2 The instrument of ratification stipulates that the Convention and the Protocol of signature will be applicable to the Kingdom in Europe, Surinam and the Netherlands New Guinea. In a communication received on 4 August 1960, the Government of the Netherlands notified the Secretary-General that the Convention will be applicable to the Netherlands Antilles. The ratification was made subject to the reservation recorded in the Protocol of Signature annexed to the Convention; for the text of that reservation, see United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 327, p. 322.

3 In a communication received on 14 December 1965, the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands notified the Secretary-General of the denunciation of the Convention for the territory of the Kingdom in Europe and the Territories of Surinam and the Netherlands Antilles. The denunciation took effect on 14 December 1966.

4 Instrument of ratification of the unamended 1936 Convention. Spain, on behalf of which the Protocol of 11 December 1946 amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on narcotic drugs concluded at the Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925, 19 February 1925 and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936 was signed definitively on 26 September 1955 (see chapter VI.1), has, as a result of the said definitive signature and of its ratification of the unamended 1936 Convention, become a party to the said Convention of 1936 as amended by the said Protocol of 1946.