UNITED A NATIQNS

General Aaaembly Dietr. GENERAL

A/41/507 8 August 1986 I ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

Forty-first session Item 12 of the provisional agenda*

I REPORT OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL Status of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Report of the Secretary-General

1. The General Aseembly, by ite reeolution 260 A (1111 of 9 December 1948, adopted and opened for signature, and ratif ication or accession the Convention on the Preventicsn snd Puniehment of the Crime of Genocide. The Convention entered into force on 12 January 1951 in accordance with its article XIII.

2. By its reaoluticn 40/142 of 13 December 1985, the General Assembly, mindful of the fact that the year 1986 marked the thirty-fifth annivereary 3f the entry into force of the Convention, urqed those States that had not yet become partiee to the Convention to ratify it or accede thereto without further delay8 and invited the Secretary-General to submit to it at its forty-firet session a report on the statue of the Convention. It further requested the Commieeion on Human Riqhte to consider at its forty-sdcond seesion the question of promotinq the full implementation of the Convention and to submit its consideratione and proposals on that queetion, through tfre Economic and Social Coutxil, to the General Assembly at ite forty-first seeeion.

3. By it.6 resolution i966/18 of 10 March 1986, the Commlasion on Human Rights rtronqly condemned once again the crime of qenocidet reaffirmed the necessity of international co-operation in order to liberate mankind from euch an odious scoJrqe and also urqed “those States that have not yet become parties to the Convention to ratify it or accede thereto without fr!rther delay”.

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4. The Econo.yic and Social Council, by it8 rorolution 1986/42 of 23 May 1906, reaffirmed the ,rroviaionr of the rerrolution of the Commiraion on Human Right8 men t ioned above.

5. Ae at 1 Auqumt 1986, the Convantion had been ratified or acceded to by 96 States. In additl?n, four Staten had signed the Convention. The list of States that have siqned, ratitied, acceded or aucceedrd to the Convention, aa well ae the dates of their riqnat:rre, ratification, l ccersion or ruccerrion ir containea in the annex to the present report.

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ANNEX

List of Statee which have siqned, ratified, acceded or succeeded to the Convention on the Prevention and.Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Date of receipt of the instrument of Date of ratification, acceseion State signature or succession

Afqhanisten 22 21 Albania 12 Alqer is 31 October 1963 3 Arqentina 5 21 Australia 11 December 1948 8 Auetr is 19 March 1958 21 Bahamas 5 August 1975 sl/ Barbados 14 January 1980 g Belgium 12 5 September 1951 Bali via 11 December 1948 Braail 11 December 1948 15 April 1952 Bulqar ia 21 !v Burkina Faeo 14 September 1965 s/ Burma 30 December 1949 14 March 1956 Byeloruseian Soviet Socialist Republic 16 December 1949 11 Auquet 1954 Canada 28 3 September 1952 Chile 11 December 1948 3 China 20 July 1949 18 April 1983 Colombia 12 Auquet 1949 27 Cotta Rica 14 21 Cuba 28 December 1949 4 Cyprus 29 March 1982 il/ Czechoslovakia 28 tixember 1949 21 Democratic Kampuchea 14 October 1950 I/ Denmark 28 15 June 1951 Dominican Republic 11 December 1948 Ecuador 11 December 1948 21 December 1949 Wwt 12 December 1948 8 February 1952 El Salvador 27 28 Ethiopia 11 December 1948 1 July 1949 Fiji 11 January 1973 g/ Finland 18 g/ France 11 December 1948 14 October 1950 Gabon 21 January 1983 sii Gambia 29 December 1978 g/ German Democratic Republic 27 March 1973 s/ Germany@ Federal Republic of 24 c/ Ghana 24 December 1958 e/ 29 December 1949 8

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Date of receipt of -.the instrument ot Date of- ratification, accession --State signature or success ion Guatemala 22 13 Haiti 11 December 1948 14 October 1950 Honduras 22 Arpil 1949 5 March 1952 Hunqary 7 January 1952 a/ Iceland 14 29 India 29 November 1949 27 Auqust 1959 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 8 December lY4Y 14 Auqust 1956 Iraa 20 31 I rel ,~d 22 June 1976 i? Israel 17 Auqust 1949 9 Italy 4 June 1Y52 d/ Jamaica 23 September 1968 p/ Jordan 3 d/ Lao People’s Democratic Republic 8 December 1950 g/ Lebanon 30 December 1949 17 Lesotho 29 November 1974 d/ Liberia 11 December 1948 9 June 1950 Luxembourq 7 October 1981 d/ Maldives 24 April 1984 d/ Mali 16 July 1974 d/ Mex ice I.4 December 1948 22 July 1952 Monaco 30 March 1950 a/ Monqol ia S January 1967 d/ Morocco 24 January 1958 d/ Mozambique 18 April 1983 a/ Nepa 1 17 January 1969 a/ Nether lands 20 June 1966 4 New Zealand 25 November 1949 28 December 1978 Nicaragua 29 January 1952 a/ Nor way 11 December i948 22 July 1949 Pakistan 11 December 1948 12 October 1957 Panama 11 December 1948 11 January 1950 Papila New Guinea 27 January lY82 c/ Daraquay 11 December 1948 Peru 11 December 1948 24 February 1960 Philippines 11 December 1948 7 July 1950 Poland 14 a/ &public of Korea 14 3ctohPr 1950 a/ Romania 2 !>0 a/ Hwanda 16 April 1975 7 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 9 November 1981 s/ Saudi Arabia 13 July 1950 a/ Seneca 1 4 Auqust 1983 a/ Spa i- 13 September 1968 a/ Sri Lanka 12 October 1950 s/ Sweden 30 December 1949 27 May 1952

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Date of receipt of the instrument of Date of ratification, accession State sig.?ature or succession

Syr ian Arab Republic 25 is/ Togo 24 May 1984 21 Tonga 16 February 1972 fi/ Tunisia 29 November 1956 g Tu-‘key 31 July 1950 ii/ Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 16 December 1949 15 November 1954 Union of Soviet Socialist Republ its 16 December 1949 3 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 30 January 1970 81 United Republic of Tanzania i April 1984 p/ of America 11 December 1948 Uruguay 11 December 1948 11 July 1967 Venezuela 12 July 1960 21 Viet Nam 9 June 1981 81 Yugoslavia 11 December 1948 29 Zaire 31 May 1962 s?

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