Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation

of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character

Opened for signature at Lake Success, New York, on 15 July 1949

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 12 August 1954, in accordance with article XII.

REGISTRATION: 12 August 1954, No. 2631.

TEXT: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 197, p. 3.

STATUS: Signatories: 16. Parties: 35.

Note: The Agreement was approved by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its third session, held at Beirut from 17 November to 11 December 1948, in a resolution 1 adopted at the seventeenth plenary meeting on 10 December 1948.

Afghanistan 29 Dec 1949

Bosnia and Herzegovina 12 Jan 1994 d

Brazil 15 Sep 1949 15 Aug 1962

Cambodia 20 Feb 1952 a

Canada 17 Dec 1949 4 Oct 1950

Congo 26 Aug 1968 a

Costa Rica 9 Jun 1971 a

Croatia 26 Jul 1993 d

Cuba 7 Feb 1977 a

Cyprus 10 Aug 1972 a

Czech Republic 22 Aug 1997 a

Denmark 29 Dec 1949 10 Aug 1955

Dominican Republic 5 Aug 1949

Ecuador 29 Dec 1949

El Salvador 29 Dec 1949 24 Jun 1953

Ghana 22 Mar 1960 a

Greece 31 Dec 1949 9 Jul 1954

Haiti 2 Dec 1949 14 May 1954

Iran (Islamic
Republic of) 31 Dec 1949 30 Dec 1959

Iraq 29 Aug 1952 a

Jordan 7 Jul 1972 a

Lebanon 30 Dec 1949 12 May 1971

Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya 22 Jan 1973 a

Madagascar 23 May 1962 a

Malawi 5 Jul 1967 a

Malta 29 Jul 1968 a

Morocco 25 Jul 1968 a

Netherlands 30 Dec 1949

Niger 22 Apr 1968 a

Norway 20 Dec 1949 12 Jan 1950

Pakistan 16 Feb 1950 a

Philippines 31 Dec 1949 13 Nov 1952

Slovakia 9 Jun 1997 a

Slovenia 3 Nov 1992 d

Syrian Arab Republic 16 Sep 1951 a

the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia 2 Sep 1997 d

Trinidad and Tobago 31 Aug 1965 a

United States
of America 13 Sep 1949 14 Oct 1966

Uruguay 31 Dec 1949

Yugoslavia 30 Jun 1950 a

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

cuba

Reservation:

The Government of the Republic of Cuba does not consider itself bound by the provisions of article IX, inasmuch as it believes that any disputes which may arise between States concerning the interpretation or application of the Agreement must be settled by direct negotiation through the diplomatic channel.

Declaration:

The Government of the Republic of Cuba hereby declares that the provisions of paragraphs 1 to 4 of article XIV of the Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural Character are contrary to the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples (resolution 1514 (XV)), adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 14 December 1960, which proclaims the necessity of bringing to a speedy and unconditional end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations.

libyan arab jamahiriya

The accession of the Libyan Arab Republic to this Agreement does not imply recognition of Israel or the assumption towards Israel of any commitments arising out of this Agreement.

netherlands

Upon signature:

"As regards article III, paragraph 1, the words and quantitative restrictions and from the necessity of applying for an import licence' will be deleted, and excluded from the application of the Agreement."

NOTES:

1 Records of the General Conference of UNESCO, Third Session, Beirut 1948, vol. II, Resolutions (3/3C/110, vol. II), p. 113.