476 



(•(inciliiitidii or, if conciliution does not siicc<»e<l, to arhitruliou, as set 

 out in tiie Annex to the present Convention. 



2. The Party wliich look the measures sluill not he entitled to 

 lefuse a i'e(iues't for ('on<'iliation or arbitration under |)rovisi()ns of the 

 precedinji paragraph solely on the grounds that any reniedies under 

 niuni('ii)al law in its on\ n court have not been exliausted. 



AUTK'LE IX 



1. The (>resent ('on\ention shall remain open for signature until 

 :n December 1970 and shall thereafter remain o|)en for accession. 



2. States Members of the United Nations or any of the Speciali/e«l 

 Agencies or of the International Atomic Energy Agen<-y or Pai-ties 

 to the Statute of the International Court of Justice may become 

 Parties to this Convention by: 



(a) signature without reservation as to ratification, acceptance 

 or approval ; 



(&) signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval 

 followed by ratification, acceptance or approval ; or 



(c) accession. 



Article X 



1. Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be effected 

 by the deposit of a formal instrument to that effect with the Secretary- 

 (jeneral of the Organization. 



2. Any instrument of ratification, acceptance, ai)proval or acces- 

 sion deposited after the entry into force of an amendment to the 

 present Convention with resi)ect to all existing Parties or after the 

 completion of all n\easures required for the entry into force of the 

 amendment with respect to those Parties shall be deemed to apply 

 to the Convention as modified by the amendment. 



Article XI 



1. The present Convention shall enter into force on the ninetietli 

 day following the date on which Governments of fifteen States have 

 eitlier signed it without reservation as to ratification, acceptaiu-c or 

 approval or have dei)osited instruments of ratification, accej)tance, 

 approval or accession with the Secretary-General of the Orgamzation. 



2. For each State which subsecpiently ratifies, accepts, approves 

 or accedes to it the present Convention shall come into force on the 

 ninetieth ilay after deposit by such Slate of the a|)propriate in- 

 strument. 



Article XII 

 1. The present Convention may be denounced by any Party at 



