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s of Refugees (1967 Protocol)

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State

NEW ZEALAND

NIGER

NIGERIA

NORWAY

Accession, notification

of succession (d)

6 August

1973

2 February

1970

2 May

1968

28 November

1967

PANAMA

2 August

1978 a

PARAGUAY

1 April

1970

PORTUGAL

13 July

1976

SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE

1 February

1978 a

SENEGAL

3 October

1967

SOMALIA

10 October

1978 a

SPAIN

14 August

1978 a

SUDAN

23 May

1974

SURINAME

29 November

1978 da

Swaziland

28 January

1969

SWEDEN

4 October

1967

SWITZERLAND

20 May

1968

TOGO

1 December

1969

TUNISIA

16 October

1968

TURKEY

1968

UGANDA

UNITED KINGDOM

UNITED REpublic of CAMEROON UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA URUGUAY

YUGOSLAVIA

ZAIRE ZAMBIA

31 July

27 September

1976

4 September 1968 19 September 1967 4 September 1968

1 November 1968

22 September 1970

15 January

13 January

1968

1975

149

BOTSWANA

24 September 1969

Declarations and Reservations ◄

"Subject to the reservation in respect of article IV of the said Protocol and in respect of the application in accordance with article I thereof of the provisions of articles 7, 17, 26, 31, 32 and 34 and paragraph 1 of article 12 of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, done at Geneva on 28 July 1951.”

BURUNDI

In acceding to this Protocol, the Government of the Republic of Burundi enters the following reservations: 1. The provisions of article 22 are accepted, in respect of elementary education, only

(a) In so far as they apply to public education, and

not to private education;

(b) On the understanding that the treatment ap plicable to refugees shall be the most favourable accorded to nationals of other States.

2. The provisions of article 17 (1) and (2) are accepted as mere recommendations and, in any event, shall not be interpreted as necessarily involving the regime accorded to nationals of countries with which the Republic of Burundi may have concluded regional, customs, economic or political agreements.

3. The provisions of article 26 are accepted only subject to the reservation that refugees:

(a) Do not choose their place of residence in a region

bordering on their country of origin; (b) Refrain, in any event, when exercising their right to move freely, from any activity or incursion of a subversive nature with respect to the country of which they are nationals.

* See foot-note 24, p. 131.

See article VII of the Protocol, relating to reservations and declarations, in Final Clouses (ST/LEG/SERD/1. Annex), page V-15.

CHILE

(1) With the reservation that, with reference to the provisions of article 34, the Government of Chile will be unable to grant to refugees facilities greater than those granted to aliens in general, in view of the liberal nature of Chilean naturalization laws;

(2) With the reservation, that the period specified in article 17, paragraph 2 (a) shall, in the case of Chile, be extended from three to ten years;

(3) With the reservation that article 17, para- graph 2 (c) shall apply only if the refugee is the widow or the widower of a Chilean spouse;

(4) With the reservation that the Government of Chile cannot grant a longer period for compliance with an expulsion order than that granted to other aliens in general under Chilean law.

CONGO

The Protocol is accepted with the exception of ar- isle IV.

ETHIOPIA

Subject to the following reservation in respect of the application, under article I of the Protocol, of the Con- vention relating to the Status of Refugees, done at Geneva on 28 July 1951:

"The provisions of articles 8, 9, 17 (2) and 22 (1) of and not as legally binding obligations." the Convention are recognized only as recommendations

FINLAND

Subject to the following reservations concerning the application of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees in accordance with article I of the Protocol: [For the text of these reservations see page 128.]

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