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Whereas the Senate of the United States of America by their 

 resolution of May 26, 1960, two-thirds of the Senators present con- 

 curring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said 

 Convention ; 



Whereas the said Convention was duly ratified by the President 

 of the United States of America on March 24, 1961, in pursuance 

 of the advice and consent of the Senate; 



Whereas it is provided in Article 29 of the Convention that the 

 Convention shall come into force on the thirtieth day following the 

 date of deposit of the twenty-second instrument of ratification or 

 accession with the Secretary General of the United Nations; 



Whereas instruments of ratification were deposited with the Sec- 

 retary General of the United Nations by the following Governments 

 on the dat.es indicated : the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Northern Ireland, with a declaration, on March 14, 1960, Haiti on 

 March 29, 1960, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, with reser- 

 vations, on November 22, 1960, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Re- 

 public, with reservations, on January 12, 1961, the Byelorussian Soviet 

 Socialist Republic, with reservations, on February 27, 1961, the United 

 States of America on April 12, 1961, Venezuela, with reservations, 

 on August 15, 1961, Czechoslovakia, with reservations, on August 

 31, 1961, Israel on September 6, 1961, Hungary, with reservations, 

 on December 6, 1961, Rumania, with reservations, on December 12, 

 1961, Bulgaria, with reservations, on August 31, 1962, Portugal on 

 January 8, 1963, the Republic of South Africa on April 9, 1963, Aus- 

 tralia on May 14, 1963, and the Dominican Republic on August 11, 

 1964; instruments of accession were deposited with the Secretary 

 General of the United Nations by the following Governments on the 

 dates indicated : Cambodia on March 18, 1960, Malaysia on December 

 21, 1960, Senegal on April 25, 1961, and the Malagasy Republic on 

 July 31, 1962 ; and the Secretary General of the United Nations was 

 informed in a communication received on June 26, 1961 from Nigeria 

 and in a communication received on March 13, 1962 from Sierra 

 Leone that those Governments consider themselves bound by the 

 Convention ; 



And whereas, pursuant to the provision of Article 29 of the Con- 

 vention, the Convention entei*s into force on September 10, 1964; 



Now, therefore, be it known that I, Lyndon B. Johnson, Presi- 

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

 public the said Convention to the end that the same and every article 

 and clause thereof shall be observed and fulfilled with good faith, 

 on and after September 10, 1964, 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. 



