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I. Parties to Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf (39) 
1. Albania 21. Netherlands 
2. Australia 22. New Zealand 
3. Bulgaria 23. Poland 
4. Byelorussian SSR 24. Portugal 
5. Cambodia 25. Romania 
6. Colombia 26. Senegal 
7. Czechoslovakia 27. Sierra Leone 
+ 8. Denmark 28. South Africa 
9. Dominican Republic 29. Sweden 
10. Finland 30. Switzerland 
11. France 31. Thailand as 
12. Guatemala 32. Trinidad and Tobago 
13. Haiti 33. Uganda 
14. Israel 34. Ukrainian SSR 
15. Jamaica 35. USSR 
16. Madagascar 36. United Kingdom 
17. Malawi 37. United States 
18. Malaysia 38. Venezuela 
19. Malta 39. Yugoslavia 
20. Mexico 
II. States, not parties to the Convention, which have made declarations 
or enacted legislation concerning jurisdiction over the continental 
shelf (49) 
A. Adopted the Convention's Definition (8): 
1. Argentina: National Executive Power, Law No. 17, 094-M. 24 
of 29 Dec. 1966 (U.N. Doc. A/AC 135/11 at p. 10)., 
2. Germany: Federal Republic: Proclamation on the Continental 
Shelf, 20 Jan. 1964. 
3. Honduras: Congressional Decree No. 21 of the Constituent 
National Assembly, 19 Dec. 1957. 
4. India: Petroleum and Natural Gas Rules, 1959,Art. 3 
, (U.N. Doc. A/AC 135/11/Add.1 at p. 13). 
5. Italy: * Act No. 613 of 21 July 1967, Law for Exploration 
and Production of Liquid and Gaseous Hydrocarbons 
in the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf 
(U.N. Doc. A/AC 135/11 at p. 38). 
8 / U.S. State Department, Treaties in Force, January l, 1969 
(Publication 8432). 
