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1. Protocol amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs, concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11 February 1925, 19 February 1925 and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936

Lake Success, New York, 11 December 1946

 

Entry into force: 11 December 1946, in accordance with article VII (1).
Registration: 3 February 1948, No. 186.
Status: Signatories: 25 ,Parties: 62.
Text: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 12, p. 179. 

Note: The Protocol was approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in resolution 54 (I)1of 19 November 1946.

 

 

PARTICIPANTS

The amendments set forth in the annex to the Protocol came into force on the dates indicated in respect of the Agreements and Conventions listed below as follows in accordance with paragraph 2 of article VII of the Protocol:2

Agreement concerning the Suppression of the Manufacture of, Internal Trade in, and Use of, Prepared Opium (with Protocol, signed at Geneva on 11 February 1925. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27 Oct 1947 
International Opium Convention (with Protocol), signed at Geneva on 19 February 1925. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3 Feb 1948 
Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs (with Protocol of Signature), signed at Geneva on 13 July 1931 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21 Nov 1947 
Agreement concerning the Suppression of Opium Smoking, signed at Bangkok on 27 November 1931 . . . . . .   27 Oct 1947 
Convention for the Suppression of the Illicit Traffic in Dangerous Drugs, signed at Geneva on 26 June 1936. .   10 Oct 1947 

Signatures and acceptances of the Protocol of 11 December 1946

Participant  Signature  Definitive signature (s), Acceptance (A), Succession (d) 
Afghanistan    11 Dec 1946 s 
Albania    23 Jun 1947 A 
Argentina    11 Dec 1946 s 
Australia  11 Dec 1946  28 Aug 1947 A 
Austria    17 May 1950 A 
Bahamas    13 Aug 1975 d 
Belarus    11 Dec 1946 s 
Belgium    11 Dec 1946 s 
Bolivia    11 Dec 1946 s 
Brazil    17 Dec 1946 s 
Canada    11 Dec 1946 s 
Chile    11 Dec 1946 s 
China4    11 Dec 1946 s 
Colombia    11 Dec 1946 s 
Costa Rica5  11 Dec 1946   
Cuba  12 Dec 1946   
Czech Republic3    30 Dec 1993 d 
Denmark5  11 Dec 1946  15 Jun 1949 A 
Dominican Republic    11 Dec 1946 s 
Ecuador  14 Dec 1946  8 Jun 1951 A 
Egypt5  11 Dec 1946  13 Sep 1948 A 
Fiji    1 Nov 1971 d 
Finland    3 Feb 1948 A 
France5  11 Dec 1946  10 Oct 1947 A 
Germany6,7    12 Aug 1959 A 
Greece5  11 Dec 1946  21 Feb 1949 A 
Guatemala5  13 Dec 1946   
Haiti  14 Dec 1946  31 May 1951 A 
Honduras    11 Dec 1946 s 
Hungary    16 Dec 1955 A 
India    11 Dec 1946 s 
Iran (Islamic Republic of)    11 Dec 1946 s 
Iraq5  12 Dec 1946  14 Sep 1950 A 
Ireland    18 Feb 1948 A 
Italy    25 Mar 1948 s 
Japan    27 Mar 1952 A 
Lebanon    13 Dec 1946 s 
Liberia    11 Dec 1946 s 
Liechtenstein8    25 Sep 1947 A 
Luxembourg5  11 Dec 1946  13 Oct 1949 A 
Mexico    11 Dec 1946 s 
Monaco    21 Nov 1947 s 
Netherlands5  11 Dec 1946  10 Mar 1948 A 
New Zealand    11 Dec 1946 s 
Nicaragua  13 Dec 1946  24 Apr 1950 A 
Norway5  11 Dec 1946  2 Jul 1947 A 
Panama    15 Dec 1946 s 
Papua New Guinea    28 Oct 1980 d 
Paraguay  14 Dec 1946   
Peru  26 Nov 1948   
Philippines5  11 Dec 1946  25 May 1950 A 
Poland    11 Dec 1946 s 
Romania    11 Oct 1961 A 
Russian Federation  11 Dec 1946  25 Oct 1947 A 
Saudi Arabia    11 Dec 1946 s 
Slovakia3    28 May 1993 d 
South Africa5  15 Dec 1946  24 Feb 1948 A 
Spain    26 Sep 1955 s 
Sweden    17 Oct 1947 s 
Switzerland8    25 Sep 1947 A 
Syrian Arab Republic    11 Dec 1946 s 
Thailand    27 Oct 1947 s 
Turkey    11 Dec 1946 s 
Ukraine  11 Dec 1946  8 Jan 1948 A 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland    11 Dec 1946 s 
United States of America  11 Dec 1946  12 Aug 1947 A 
Uruguay  14 Dec 1946   
Venezuela  11 Dec 1946   
Yugoslavia5  11 Dec 1946  19 May 1948 A 
 

 

NOTES

1. Official Records of the General Assembly, Second Part of the First Session, Resolutions (A-64-Add.1), p. 81.

2. The Protocol does not contain any formal amendment in respect of the Convention of 23 January 1912. However, its article III provides as follows:

"The functions conferred upon the Netherlands Government under articles 21 and 25 of the International Opium Convention signed at The Hague on 23 January 1912, and entrusted to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations with the consent of the Netherlands Government, by a resolution of the League of Nations Assembly dated 15 December 1920, shall henceforward be exercised by the Secretary-General of the United Nations."

The Convention of 23 January 1912 (which, consequently, was amended in effect by the Protocol of 11 December 1946) has been included in the present chapter.

3. Czechoslovakia had signed the Protocol, definitively, on 11 December 1946. See also note 11 in chapter I.2.

4. See note concerning signatures, ratifications, accessions, etc. on behalf of China (note 4 in chapter I.1).

5. The signature was affixed without reservation as to approval, but the full powers provided for signature subject to this reservation.

6. See note 14 in chapter I.2.

7. In a communication received by the Secretary-General on 22 January 1960, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany stated that the Protocol "also applies to Land Berlin as from 12 August 1959, i.e., the day on which the Protocol entered into force for the Federal Republic of Germany".

With reference to the above-mentioned statement, communications have been addressed to the Secretary-General by the Governments of Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, on the one hand, and by the Governments of the Federal Republic of Germany, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, on the other hand. The said communications are identical in essence, mutatis mutandis, to the corresponding ones reproduced in note 4, chapter III.3.

Subsequently, in a communication received by the Secretary-General on 3 October 1990, the Government of Hungary indicated that, the German State having achieved its unity on this day [3 October 1990], it had decided to withdraw, as from that date, the declaration it had made with respect to the notification of extension by the Federal Republic of Germany to Land Berlin. See also note 6 above.

8. The instrument of acceptance of the Protocol by the Government of the Swiss Confederation stipulates that the declaration of acceptance is also valid for the Principality of Liechtenstein.