9) International drug treaties: Chapter 8a

Entry into force

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July 9, 1933, in accordance with Article 30.

Registration

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July 9, 1933

Ratifications or definitive accessions :

Afghanistan (21 jun 1935 a)

Albania (9 oct 1937 a)

Germany (10 apr 1933)

USA (28 apr 1932)

1. The Government of the United States of America reserves the right to apply, for the purpose of exercising internal control and of controlling the imports and exports of opium, coca leaves and all derivatives thereof, and similar synthetic products, from territories under its jurisdiction, measures more stringent than the provisions of the Convention.

2. The Government of the United States of America reserves the right to apply, for the purpose of exercising control over the transit through its territories of raw opium, coca leaves, all their derivatives and similar synthetic products, measures under which the granting of an authorization for transit through its territory may be subject to the production of an import permit issued by the country of destination.

3. The Government of the United States of America sees no possibility of undertaking to send to the Permanent Central Opium Board statistics of imports and exports before a period of sixty days from the end of the three-month period to which such statistics relate..

4. The Government of the United States of America does not see the possibility of undertaking to indicate separately the quantities of narcotics purchased or imported for State needs..

5. The plenipotentiaries of the United States formally declare that the fact that they have this day signed, on behalf of the United States of America, the Convention for the Limitation of the Manufacture and Regulation of the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, shall not be construed as meaning that the Government of the United States of America recognizes any regime or entity that signs or accedes to the Convention as constituting the government of any country, when that regime or entity is not recognized by the Government of the United States of America as constituting the government of that country.

6. The plenipotentiaries of the United States of America further declare that the participation of the United States of America in the Convention for the Limitation of the Manufacture and Regulation of the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, signed this day, does not imply any contractual obligation on the part of the United States of America to any country represented by a regime or entity that the Government of the United States of America does not recognize as constituting the government of that country, so long as that country does not have a government recognized by the Government of the United States of America.

Saudi Arabia (August 15, 1936)

Argentina (April 18, 1946)

Austria (July 3, 1934)

Belgium (April 10, 1933)

This ratification does not bind either the Belgian Congo or the territory of Ruanda-Urundi placed under the mandate of Belgium.

Congo Belgian and mandated territory of Ruanda-Urundi (17 décembre 1941 a)

Brazil (April 5, 1933)

Great Britain and Northern Ireland (April 1, 1933)

Her Majesty assumes no obligations in respect of any of her colonies, protectorates and overseas territories or territories under the suzerainty or mandate of her Government in the United Kingdom.

Borneo (North Borneo State), Ceylon, Cyprus, Gold Coast [a) Colony, b) Ashanti, c) Northern Territories, d) Togoland under British mandate], Falkland Islands and dependencies2, Gambia (Colony and Protectorate), Gibraltar, British Honduras, Hong Kong, Leeward Islands (Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Virgin Islands), Kenya (Colony and Protectorate), Mauritius, Nigeria [a) Colony, b) Protectorate, c) Cameroons under British mandate], Nyasaland (Protectorate), Northern Rhodesia, Solomon Islands (British Solomon Islands Protectorate), Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone (Colony and Protectorate), Somaliland (Protectorate), Straits settlements, Tanganyika (Territory of), Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Zanzibar (Protectorate of) (18 May 1936 a)

Rhodésie du Sud (14 juillet 1937 a)

Barbados (La), Bermuda, Fiji, British Guiana, Windward Islands (Grenada, St. Vincent), Malays [a], Federated Malay States: Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor; (b) Unfederated Malay States: Kedah, Perlis and Brunei], Palestine (excluding Transjordan), St. Helena and Ascension, Transjordan, Burma) (24 August 1938 a)

Newfoundland (28 jun 1937 a)

Canada (17 oct 1932)

Australia (24 jan 1934 a)

This membership extends to the Papua, à l' Norfolk Island and to the territories under mandate of the New Guinea et de Nauru

New Zealand (June 17, 1935 a)

Union of South Africa (January 4, 1938 a)

Ireland (April 11, 1933 a)

India (November 14, 1932)

Bulgaria (March 20, 1933 a)

Chile (March 31, 1933)

China (January 10, 1934 a)

Colombia (January 29, 1934 a)

Costa Rica (5 april 1933)

Cuba (4 april 1933)

Danemark (5 june 1936)

Dominican Republic (April 8, 1933)

Egypt (April 10, 1933)

Ecuador (April 13, 1935 a)

Spain (April 7, 1933)

Estonia (5 jul 1935 a)

Finlandia (25 sep 1936 a)

France (10 apr 1933)

The French Government makes all its reservations with regard to the colonies, protectorates and countries under mandate dependent on its authority, on the possibility of regularly producing within the strictly prescribed time limit the quarterly statistics referred to in Article 13.

Greece (December 27, 1934)

Guatemala (May 1, 1933)

Haiti (May 4, 1933 a)

Honduras (September 21, 1934)

Hungary (April 10, 1933 a)

Iraq (May 30, 1934 a)

Iran (28 sep 1932)

Italia (21 mar 1933)

Japan (3 jun 1935)

The Japanese Government declares that in view of the necessity for close co-operation between the High Contracting Parties, with a view to carrying out most effectively the provisions of the Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, signed at Geneva on July 13, 1931, it considers that the present position of Japan, irrespective of whether it is a Member of the League of Nations or not, should be maintained with regard to the composition of the organs and the appointment of the members of those organs as mentioned in the said Convention.

Lettonia (3 aug 1937 a)

Liechtenstein

Lituania (10 apr 1933)

Luxembourg (30 mai 1936)

Mexico (13 mar 1933)

The Government of the United Mexican States reserves the right to impose, in its territory, as it has already done, stricter measures than those established by the Convention itself, for the restriction of the cultivation or preparation, use, possession, importation, exportation and consumption of the drugs referred to in this Convention..

Monaco (16 fev 1933)

Nicaragua (16 mar 1932 a)

Norway (12 sept 1934 a)

Panama (15 apr 1935)

Paraguay (25 jn 1941)

Neetherland (22 mai 1933)

(including Dutch East Indies, Suriname and Curaçao)

Peru (20 mai 1932 a)

Polska (11 apr 1933)

Portugal (17 jun 1932)

The Portuguese Government expresses its full reservations, with regard to its colonies, regarding the possibility of regularly producing within the strictly prescribed time limit the quarterly statistics referred to in Article 13.

Roumania (11 apr 1933)

San Marino (12 jun 1933)

Salvador (7 apr 1933 a)

a) The Republic of El Salvador does not agree with the provisions of Article 26, since there is no reason why the High Contracting Parties should be granted the power to withdraw their colonies, protectorates and overseas territories under mandate from the effects of the Convention..

b) The Republic of El Salvador declares its disagreement with the reservations contained in Nos. 5 and 6 of the Declarations made by the Plenipotentiaries of the United States of North America concerning governments not recognized by the Government of that country, reservations which, in its opinion, infringe the national sovereignty of El Salvador, whose present Government, although not recognized until now by that of the United States, has been recognized by the greater part of the civilized countries of the world; if these countries have recognized it, it is because they are convinced of its perfectly constitutional character and convinced that it provides a full and complete guarantee of the fulfillment of its international duties, given the unanimous, decided and effective support it enjoys on the part of all the inhabitants of the Republic, citizens of that country or foreigners domiciled there.

The Republic of El Salvador, respectful of the internal regimes of other nations, considers that the Convention in question, of a strictly hygienic and humanitarian nature, does not provide a suitable opportunity to formulate reservations of a political nature such as those which motivate the present observation..

Sudan (25 août 1932 a)

Sweed (12 aug 1932)

Switzerland (10 apr 1933)

Czechoslovakia (April 12, 1933)

Thailand (February 22, 1934)

Since the law of Thailand on drugs causing addiction goes further than the Geneva Convention and this Convention in certain matters, the Thai Government reserves the right to apply the law in question..

Turquie (3 avril 1933 a)

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (October 31, 1935 a)

Uruguay (7 apr 1933)

Venezuela (15 nov 1933)

Signatures not yet followed by ratifications

Bolivia

Acts subsequent to the date on which the Secretary-General of the United Nations

assumed the functions of depositary