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16. Convention and Statute on Freedom of Transit

Barcelona, 20 April 1921

 

Entry into force: 31 October 1922, in accordance with article 6.
Registration: 8 October 1921, No. 1711.
 

 

PARTICIPANTS


Ratifications or definitive accessions

Albania  (October 8th, 1921)
Austria  (November 15th, 1923)
Belgium  (May 16th, 1927)
British Empire2, including Newfoundland  (August 2nd, 1922) 
     Subject to the declaration inserted in the Procès-verbal of the meeting of April 19th, 1921, as to the British Dominions which have not been represented at the Barcelona Conference.
    Federated Malay States: Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang (August 22nd, 1923 a)
    Non-Federated Malay States: Brunei, Johore, Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Trengganu (August 22nd, 1923 a)
    Palestine (January 28th, 1924 a)
New Zealand  (August 2nd, 1922)
India  (August 2nd, 1922)
Bulgaria  (July 11th, 1922)
Chile  (March 19th, 1928)
Czechoslovakia 3 (October 29th, 1923)
Denmark  (November 13th, 1922)
Estonia  (June 6th, 1925)
Finland  (January 29th, 1923)
France  (September 19th, 1924)
    Syria and Lebanon (February 7th, 1929 a)
Germany  (April 9th, 1924 a)
Greece  (February 18th, 1924)
Hungary  (May 18th, 1928 a)
Iran  (January 29th, 1931)
Iraq  (March 1st, 1930 a)
Italy  (August 5th, 1922)
Japan  (February 20th, 1924)
Latvia  (September 29th, 1923)
Luxembourg  (March 19th, 1930)
The Netherlands4 (including the 
Netherlands Indies, Surinam and Curacao)   (April 17th, 1924)
Norway  (September 4th, 1923)
Poland  (October 8th, 1924)
Romania  (September 5th, 1923)
Spain  (December 17th, 1929)
Sweden  (January 19th, 1925)
Switzerland  (July 14th, 1924)
Thailand  (November 29, 1922 a)
Turkey  (June 27th, 1933 a)
Yugoslavia  (May 7th, 1930) 

Signatures or accessions not yet perfected by ratification

Bolivia 
China5 
Ethiopia (a) 
Guatemala 
Lithuania 
Panama 
Peru (a) 
Portugal 
Uruguay  

Actions subsequent to the assumption of depositary functions by the Secretary-General of the United Nations

Participant2,6  Accession (a), Succession (d) 
Antigua and Barbuda  25 Oct 1988 d 
Bosnia and Herzegovina  1 Sep 1993 d 
Cambodia  12 Apr 1971 d 
Croatia  3 Aug 1992 d 
Czech Republic3  9 Feb 1996 d 
Fiji  15 Mar 1972 d 
Georgia  2 Jun 1999 a 
Lao People's Democratic Republic  24 Nov 1956 d 
Lesotho  23 Oct 1973 d 
Malta  13 May 1966 d 
Mauritius  18 Jul 1969 d 
Nepal  22 Aug 1966 a 
Nigeria  3 Nov 1967 a 
Rwanda  10 Feb 1965 d 
Slovakia3  28 May 1993 d 
Slovenia  6 Jul 1992 d 
Swaziland  24 Nov 1969 a 
Zimbabwe  1 Dec 1998 d 
 

 

NOTES


1. League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol.7, p.11.


2. On 6 June and 10 June 1997, the Governments of China and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland notified the Secretary-General of the following:

China:

[Same notification as the one made under note 2 in chapter V.3.]

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland:

[Same notification as the one made under note 4 in chapter IV.1.]

The notification by China also contained the following reservation:

The Government of the People's Republic of China also declares that it has reservation to Article 13 of the [said Convention and Statute].


3. See note 11 in chapter I.2.


4. See note 8 in chapter I.1.


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


6. In a letter addressed to the Secretary-General on 3 September 1968, the President of the Republic of Malawi, referring to the Convention and Statute on Freedom of Transit, done at Barcelona on 20April 1921, stated the following:

"As I mentioned in my previous letter to you of the 24th November 1964, concerning Malawi's inherited treaty obligations, my Government regards all multilateral treaties validly applied to the former Nyasaland, including this Convention and Statute, as remaining in force on a reciprocal basis as between Malawi and any other party to the treaty, pending our notification to the depositary of the treaty confirming Malawi's succession, acceding in her own right, or terminating all legal connection therewith.

"On behalf of the Government of Malawi, I would now inform you, as depositary for this Convention and Statute, that my Govern ment considers that as from this date any legal obligations and rights which may have devolved upon Malawi from the previous ratifica tion by the United Kingdom are terminated. Accordingly, Malawi considers herself to have no further legal connection with the Convention and Statute on Freedom of Transit, signed at Barcelona on 20th April 1921. The Government of Malawi wishes, however, to reserve the right to accede to this Convention and Statute at a later date should this become necessary."