Optional Protocol of Signature concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes

Done at Geneva on 29 April 1958

ENTRY INTO FORCE: 30 September 1962.

REGISTRATION: 3 January 1963, No. 6466.

TEXT: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 450, p. 169.

STATUS: Signatories: 15. Parties: 371.

Note: See "Note" in the same place in chapter XXI.1.

Participant


Signature`1`	Definitive signature (s)`, ratification, succession (d)`

Australia 14 May 1963 s

Austria 27 Oct 1958

Belgium 6 Jan 1972 s

Bolivia 17 Oct 1958 s

Bosnia and Herzegovina 12 Jan 1994 d

Cambodia 22 Jan 1970

Canada 29 Apr 1958

China 2

Colombia 3 29 Apr 1958 s

Costa Rica 29 Apr 1958 s

Cuba 29 Apr 1958 s

Denmark 29 Apr 1958 26 Sep 1968

Dominican Republic 29 Apr 1958 s

Finland 27 Oct 1958 16 Feb 1965

France 30 Oct 1958 s

Germany4, 5 30 Oct 1958 26 Jul 1973

Ghana 29 Apr 1958 s

Haiti 29 Apr 1958 29 Mar 1960

Holy See 30 Apr 1958 s

Hungary 8 Dec 1989 s

Indonesia 6 8 May 1958

Israel 29 Apr 1958

Liberia 27 May 1958 s

Madagascar 10 Aug 1962 s

Malawi 17 Dec 1965 s

Malaysia 1 May 1961 s

Malta 19 May 1966 d

Mauritius 5 Oct 1970 d

Nepal 29 Apr 1958 s

Netherlands 31 Oct 1958 18 Feb 1966

New Zealand 29 Oct 1958 s

Pakistan 6 Nov 1958 s

Panama 2 May 1958 s

Portugal 28 Oct 1958 8 Jan 1963

Sierra Leone 14 Feb 1963 s

Solomon Islands 3 Sep 1981 d

Sri Lanka 30 Oct 1958 s

Sweden 1 Jun 1966 28 Jun 1966

Switzerland 24 May 1958 18 May 1966

Uganda 15 Sep 1964 s

United Kingdom 9 Sep 1958 s

United States of America 7 15 Sep 1958

Uruguay 29 Apr 1958 s

Yugoslavia 29 Apr 1958 28 Jan 1966

NOTES:

1 Article V of the Protocol provides that the latter "shall remain open for signature by all States who become Parties to any Convention on the Law of the Sea and is subject to ratification, where necessary, according to the constitutional requirements of the signatory States". Consequently, the signatures listed above appear in the second or third column according to whether they have been affixed subject or not to ratification.

The States listed herein are bound by this Protocol to the extent that they have signed it definitively, ratified it or succeeded to it, and that they are bound by one at least of the four Law of the Sea Conventions.

2 Signature affixed without reservation as to ratification on behalf of the Republic of China on 29 April 1958. See note concerning signatures, ratifications, accessions, etc. on behalf of China (note in chapter I.1).

3 In signing the Optional Protocol, the delegation of Colombia reserved the obligations of Colombia arising out of conventions concerning the peaceful settlement of disputes which Colombia has ratified and out of any previous conventions concerning the same subject which Colombia may ratify.

4 See note in chapter I.2.

5 With the following declaration:

"The Optional Protocol shall also apply to Berlin (West) with effect from the date on which it enters into force for the Federal Republic of Germany."

In this connection, the Secretary-General received on 5 November 1973 the following communication from the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:

The Soviet Union can take note of the declaration by the Federal Republic of Germany concerning application to Berlin (West) of . . . the Optional Protocol of signature concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes only on the understanding that such application conforms to the Quadripartite Agreement of 3 September 1971 and is subject to observance of the established procedures.

Communications, identical in essence, were received from the Government of Czechoslovakia (on 6 December 1973. See also note in chapter I.2.) and the Byelorussian SSR (on 13 February 1974).