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DRAFT FINAL CLAUSES *

Article I

SIGNATURE, RATIFICATION AND ACCESSION

(variant A)

1. Members of the United Nations, States not Members of the United Nations which are members of a specialized agency of the United Nations or of the International Atomic Energy or Parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice, and any other State invited by the Council, may become Parties to this Convention:

2.

(a) By signing it; or

(b)

By ratifying it after signing it subject to ratification; or

(c) By acceding to it.

The Convention shall be open for signature until inclusive. Thereafter it shall be open for accession.

3. Instruments of ratification or accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General.

(variant B)

1.

The present Convention is open for signature by all States.

Instruments of

2. The present Convention is subject to ratification. ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General.

3. The present Convention is open to accession by all States. Accession shall be affected by the deposit of an instrument of accession with the Secretary General.

1.

Article II

ENTRY INTO FORCE

(variant A)

The Convention shall come into force on the thirtieth/sixtieth/ninetieth day after twenty/thirty/forty of the States referred to in paragraph 1 of article I have signed it without reservation of ratification or have deposited their instruments of ratification or accession.

* Original text as drafted by the Secretariat and submitted to Governments

for comment.