LIST OF TREATIES TO WHICH THE MALDIVES IS PARTY TO Updated: December 2020 Ratification(R)/ Accession (a)/ Date and place of Acceptance(A)/ No Treaty/ Convention/ Agreement Date of Signature Depositary Focal Point Internal Links adoption Approval (Ap)/ Participation(P)/ Succession(S) Note: An asterisk indicates that a treaty has either expired, been terminated, has been superseded by a subsequent agreement or has been amended. CONVENTIONS ESTABLISHING MULTILATERAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 1 Charter of the United Nations 26 June 1945, San 20-Sep-1965 US Govt (UN for Ministry of Foreign http://www.un.org/en/section Francisco some depositary Affairs s/un-charter/introductory- function) note/index.html 2 Amendment to Article 109 of the Charter of the United Nations, 20 Dec 1965, New 5-Sep-1968 UN Secretary Ministry of Foreign adopted by the UN General Assembly Resolution 2101 (XX) York General Affairs 3 Statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) 26 June 1945, San 20-Sep-1965 US Govt (UN for http://www.icj- Francisco some depositary cij.org/documents/?p1=4&p2 function) =2 4 Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) 22 July 1946, New 5-Nov-1965 (A) UN Secretary- Ministry of Health http://www.who.int/governan York General ce/eb/who_constitution_en.p df 5 Convention of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) 11 Oct 1947, 31-May-1967 (A) IMO Secretary- Ministry of Transport http://cil.nus.edu.sg/rp/il/pdf/ Washington General and Communication 1948%20Convention%20on %20the%20International%20 Maritime%20Organization- pdf.pdf 6 Convention on International Civil Aviation 7 Dec 1944, Chicago 12-Mar-1974 (A) US Department of Civil http://www.icao.int/publicati Aviation ons/Documents/7300_orig.pd f 7 Agreement Establishing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) 22 July 1944, Bretton 13-Jan-1978 (A) US https://www.imf.org/External Woods, New /Pubs/FT/AA/pdf/aa.pdf Hampshire 8 Agreement Establishing the International Bank for Bretton Woods, New 13-Jan-1978 (A) US http://www.jus.uio.no/english Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Hampshire /services/library/treaties/14/1 4-01/reconstruction-bank.xml 9 The International Development Association (IDA) 13-Jan-1978 (A) US http://www.worldbank.org/id a/what-is-ida/fund-for-the- poorest.pdf 10 International Finance Co-operation (IFC) 11 Apr 1955 ** 14-Dec-1982 (A) http://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/ connect/2cd8bf804ad389b78 81dfa888d4159f8/S%26P's+I FC+Annual+Report+2012.pd f?MOD=AJPERES 11 Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank (ADB) 4 Dec 1965, Manila 14-Feb-1978 (P) UN Secretary- Ministry of Finance and http://www.adb.org/sites/defa General Treasury ult/files/institutional- document/32120/charter.pdf 12 Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural 13 June 1976, Rome 15-Jan-1980 (a) UN Secretary- Ministry of Fisheries http://www.ifad.org/pub/basic Development (IFAD) General and Agriculture /agree/e/!01agree.pdf 13 Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development 11 April 1980, 10-May-1988 (a) UN Secretary- https://www.unido.org/filead Organization Vienna General min/user_media/PMO/Consti tution/UNIDO_Constitution_ E.pdf 14 Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity 27 Mar 1976, 17-Mar-1980 (a) UN Secretary- Telecommunication https://treaties.un.org/doc/Pu Bangkok General Authority blication/UNTS/Volume%20 1129/volume-1129-I-17583- English.pdf 15 Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and 16 Nov 1945, 22-May-1986 (A) UK Government Ministry of Education http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev. Cultural Organization London php- URL_ID=15244&URL_DO= DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTIO N=201.html 16 Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for 12 Aug 1977, Kuala 25-Jun-1985 (a) UN Secretary- https://treaties.un.org/pages/ Broadcasting Development Lumpur General ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREA TY&mtdsg_no=XXV- 3&chapter=25&lang=en 17 Agreement Establishing the Universal Postal Union (UPU) 15 Sept 1974, Berne 15-Aug-1967 (A) UN http://www.loc.gov/law/help/ us-treaties/bevans/m- ust000002-0443.pdf 18 Asian-Pacific Postal Convention , its Final Protocl and Detailed 27 Mar 1981, 15-Mar-1982 (a) http://appu-bureau.org/ Regulations Yogyakarta 19 Charter of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre 1 April 1982, 25/Apr/1983 UN Secretary- https://treaties.un.org/doc/Pu Bangkok General blication/UNTS/Volume%20 1321/volume-1321-I-22028- English.pdf 20 International Telecommunication Convention 22 Dec 1992, Geneva 28-Feb-1997 (a) Telecommunication http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/it * Authority u- s/oth/02/09/S020900000A52 01PDFE.PDF 21 South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP) 1981 22-Oct-1981 Ministry of Housing and http://www.sacep.org/html/ab Environment out_overview.htm 22 South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) 1985 8-Dec-1985 Ministry of Foreign http://saarc-sec.org/saarc- Affairs charter/5/ 23 Charter of the Organization of Islamic the Islamic Conference Feb 1972, Jeddah 1-Aug-1974 Ministry of Foreign http://www.comcec.org/TR_ (OIC) Agreement Affairs YE/Yeni_Site_Dokumanlar/B asic_Documents/OIC_Charte r.pdf 24 Agreement for the Establishment of the Intergovernmental 13 Dec 1985, Kuala 7-Aug-1986 (a) FAO Director http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/ Organization for Marketing Information and Technical Advisory Lumpur General user_upload/legal/docs/020t- Services for Fishery Products in the Asia and Pacific Region e.pdf (INFOFISH) 25 Statutes of the World Tourism Organization 1/2/1975, Mexico 10-Jun-1980 (R) Ministry of Tourism http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfr Arts and Culture ont.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/s tatutesweba5.pdf 26 Amendment to paragraph 4 of the financing Rules attached to 29 September 19-Apr-2005 (R) Ministry of Tourism http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfr Statutes of the World Tourism Organization 2001,Seoel Arts and Culture ont.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/s tatutesweba5.pdf 27 Amendment to the paragraph 12 of the financing Rules 25 September 1979, 10-Jun-1983 (R) Ministry of Tourism http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfr attached to Statutes of the World Tourism Organization Torremolinos Arts and Culture ont.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/s tatutesweba5.pdf 28 Amendment to paragraph 13 of the financing Rules attached to 25 September 10-Jun-1983 (R) Ministry of Tourism http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfr Statutes of the World Tourism Organization 1981,Rome Arts and Culture ont.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/s tatutesweba5.pdf 29 Statutes of the World Tourism Organization and its Financing 17/May/1980 General Secretariat, Ministry of Tourism http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfr Rules World Tourism Arts and Culture ont.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/s Organization tatutesweba5.pdf 30 Statue of World Tourism Organization 25 September 1979, 21 April 1982 General Secretariat, Ministry of Tourism http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfr Torremolinos (R) World Tourism Arts and Culture ont.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/s Organization tatutesweba5.pdf 31 Amendment to article 37 of Statutes of the World Tourism 25 September 10-Jun-1983 (R) Ministry of Tourism http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfr Organization 1981,Rome Arts and Culture ont.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/s tatutesweba5.pdf 32 Amendment to the Statute of the World Tourism Organization 1979 / 1981 15-May-1983 (Ap) General Secretariat, Ministry of Tourism http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfr and its Financing Rules World Tourism Arts and Culture ont.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/s Organization tatutesweba5.pdf 33 Amendment to Article 14 and 15 of the Statute of the World 14 Oct 1983, New General Secretariat, Ministry of Tourism http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfr Tourism Organization Delhi 9 April 1984 (R) World Tourism Arts and Culture ont.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/s Organization tatutesweba5.pdf 34 Amendment to Article 15 of the Statute of the World Tourism 1 Oct 1987, Madrid General Secretariat, Ministry of Tourism http://dtxtq4w60xqpw.cloudfr Organization 31 August 1988 (R) World Tourism Arts and Culture ont.net/sites/all/files/docpdf/s Organization tatutesweba5.pdf 35 Agreement Establishing the Islamic Corporation for the 11/Jun/2000 17-Oct-2001 http://www.isdb.org/irj/go/km Development of the Private Sector /docs/documents/IDBDevelop ments/Internet/English/IDB/C M/About%20IDB/Articles%2 0of%20Agreement/ICD_Arti cles-of-Agreement.pdf 36 International Organization for Migration 31-Mar-2011 Secretary General Department of http://www.iom.int/cms/abou International Immigration t-iom Organization for Migration 37 International Centre for Studies of the prevention and 7-Jul-2012 ICCROM-DG Department of Heritage http://www.iccrom.org/ restoration of cultural properties 38 International Labor Organization (ILO) 1919 15 May 2009. ILO DG Labor Ministry http://www.ilo.org/global/abo ut-the-ilo/lang--en/index.htm 39 The Forced Labor Convention, (No. 29) 1930 4-Jan-2013 (R) ILO Director Labor Ministry https://tavaana.org/sites/defau General lt/files/C29%20Forced%20La bour%20Convention,%20193 0.pdf 40 The Abolition of Forced Labor Convention, (No. 105) 1957 4-Jan-2013 (R) ILO Director Labor Ministry http://www.ohchr.org/Docum General ents/ProfessionalInterest/abol ition.pdf 41 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize 1948 4-Jan-2013 (R) ILO Director Labor Ministry http://www.ohchr.org/Docum Convention, (No. 87) General ents/ProfessionalInterest/abol ition.pdf 42 The Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 4-Jan-2013 (R) ILO Director Labor Ministry http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/g (No. 98), General roups/public/@ed_dialogue/ @dialogue/documents/public ation/wcms_168332.pdf 43 freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize 1951 4-Jan-2013 (R) ILO Director Labor Ministry http://uniequalpay.org/files/d Convention, (No. 87) General ocuments/en/ilo-convention- on-equal-remuneration- %28c100%29-en.pdf 44 The Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention, 1958 4-Jan-2013 (R) ILO Director Labor Ministry http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/g (No.