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Whereas it is provided in Article III of the Protocol that the 

 Protocol shall enter into force on the date on which instruments of 

 ratification or approval have been deposited with, or written notifi- 

 cations of adherence have been received by, the Government of the 

 United States of America on behalf of all the Governments parties 

 to the International Convention for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries 

 signed at Washington under date o,f February 8, 1949; provided, 

 however, that Article II of the Protocol shall enter into force only 

 if the Protocol Relating to Entry into Force of Proposals Adopted 

 by the Commission, done at Washington on November 29, 1965, has 

 not entered into force ; 



Whereas instruments of ratification or approval have been deposited 

 with, or written notifications of adherence have been received by, 

 the Government of the United States of America from all the Govern- 

 ments parties to the 1949 Convention, namely : 



Iceland on December 7, 1965; Canada on April 1, 1966; the United 

 Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on August 15, 1966 ; 

 the United States o.f America on August 16, 1966 ; France on Febru- 

 ary 15, 1967; Norway on March 9, 1967; Romania on March 21, 1967; 

 Spain on March 30, 1967; the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 

 on October 23, 1967; Denmark on August 14, 1968; Poland on Janu- 

 ary 7, 1969; the Federal Republic of Germany on May 29, 1969; 

 Italy on December 19, 1969; and Portugal on December 19, 1969; 



Whereas, pursuant to the provisions of Article III of the Protocol, 

 the Protocol entered into force on December 19, 1969, except for 

 Article II of the Protocol which did not enter into force in view of 

 the entry into force on December 19, 1969 of the 1965 Protocol Relat- 

 ing to Entry into Force o,f Proposals Adopted by the Commission; 



Now, THEREFORE, be it kuowu that I, Richard Nixon, President of 

 the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public 

 the said Protocol to the end that the same and every article and clause 

 thereof, except Article II, shall be observed and fulfilled in good 

 faith, on and after December 19, 1969, by the United States of 

 America and by the citizens of the United States of America and 

 all other persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof. 



In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the 

 Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. 



Done at the city of Washington this fourth day of February in 

 the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred seventy 



[seal] and of tlie Independence of the United States of America 

 the one hundred ninety-fourth. 



Richard Nixon. 



By the President: 

 William P. Kogers 

 Secretary of State 



