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2. Convention relating to the Status of Refugees
Done at Geneva on 28 July 19511
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 22 April 1954, in accordance with article 43. Registration: 22 April 1954, No. 2545.
TEXT: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, p. 137.
State
ALGERIA
Signature
Ratification, accession (a), notification of succession (d)
21 February
1963 d
ARGENTINA
AUSTRALIA
15 November
1961 a
22 January
1954 a
AUSTRIA
28 July
1951
1 November
1954
BELGIUM
28 July
1951
22 July
1953
BENIN
4 April
1962 d
BOTSWANA
6 January
1969 a
BRAZIL
15 July
1952
16 November
1960
BURUNDI
19 July
1963 a
6
CANADA
CENTRAL AFRICAN EMPIRE
4 June
4 September
1962 d
1969 a
CHILE
28 January
1972 a
COLOMBIA
28 July
1951
10 October
1961
CONGO
15 October
1962 d
COSTA RICA
28 March
1978 a
CYPRUS
16 May
1963 d
DENMARK
28 July
1951
4 December
1952
DJIBOUTI
9 August
1977 d
DOMINICAN RepubliC
4 January
1978 a
ECUADOR
17 August
1955 a
ETHIOPIA
FIJI FINLAND
FRANCE
GABON
10 November
1969 a
12 June
1972 d
10 October
1968 @
11 September 1952
23 June
1954
27 April
GAMBIA
7 September
1964 a 1966 d
GERMANY, FEderal
REPUBLIC OF3
19 November 1951
GHANA
GREECE
10 April
1952
5 April
1 December 18 March
1953 1963 a 1960
GUINEA
28 December
1965 d
GUINEA-BISSAU
11 February
1976 a..
HOLY SEE
21 May
1952
15 March
1956
30 November
1955 a
ICELAND
IRAN
28 July
1976 a
IRELAND
29 November
1956 a
ISRAEL
ITALY
1 August 23 July
1951
1 October
1954
1952
15 November
1954
IVORY COAST
8 December
1961 d
JAMAICA
30 July
1964 d
ΚΕΝΥΑ
16 May
1966 a
15 October
1964 a
LIBERIA
LIECHTENSTEIN
LUXEMBOURG
MADAGASCAR MALI
28 July 28 July
1951 1951
8 March
1957
23 July
1953
18 December
1967 a
1973 d
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'The Convention was adopted by the United Nations Con- ference of Plenipotentiaries on the Status of Refugees and Stateless Persons, held at Geneva from 2 to 25 July 1951. The Conference was convened pursuant to resolution 429 (V), adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 14 December 1950. For the text of this resolution, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifth Session, Supplement No. 20 (À/1775), p. 48. For the text of the Final Act, re
2 February
solution and recommendations adopted by the Conference, see United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, p. 137.
2 On 15 December 1955, a communication was received by the Secretary-General from the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany stating that the Convention also applies to Land Berlin as from the date of its entry into force for the Federal Republic of Germany.