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The Presidents of the Republics of Peru, Uruguay, Panama,
Ecuador, Mexico, EI Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Venezuela,
Colombia, Honduras,
Costa Rica, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Haiti, Dominican Republic,
United States of America and Cuba, desirous that their respective countries
should be represented at the Sixth International Conference of American States,
have sent to it, duly authorized to approve the recommendations, resolutions,
conventions, and treaties which they may deem useful to the interests of
America, the following delegates:
Peru: Jesús Melquíades Salazar, Víctor Maúrtua, Enrique Castro
Oyanguren, Luis Ernesto Denegri.
Uruguay: Jacobo Varela Acebedo, Juan José Amézaga, Leonel
Aguirre, Pedro Erasmo Callorda.
Panama: Ricardo J. Alfaro, Eduardo Chiari.
Ecuador: Gonzalo Zaldumbide, Víctor Zevallos, Colón Eloy
Alfaro.
Mexico: Julio García, Fernando González Roa, Salvador Urbina,
Aquiles Elorduy.
El Salvador: Gustavo Guerrero, Héctor David Castro, Eduardo
Alvarez.
Guatemala: Carlos Salazar, Bernardo Alvarado Tello, Luis
Beltranena, José Azurdia.
Nicaragua: Carlos Cuadra Pazos, Joaquín Gómez, Máximo H.
Zepeda.
Bolivia: José Antezana, Adolfo Costa du Rels.
Venezuela: Santiago Key Ayala, Francisco Gerardo Yanes, Rafael
Angel Arraíz.
Colombia: Enrique Olaya Herrera, Jesús M. Yepes, Roberto
Urdaneta Arbeláez, Ricardo Gutiérrez Lee.
Honduras: Fausto Dávila, Mariano Vásquez. Costa Rica: Ricardo
Castro Beeche, J. Rafael Oreamuno, Arturo Tinoco.
Chile: Alejandro Lira, Alejandro Alvarez, Carlos Silva
Vildósola, Manuel Bianchi.
Brazil: Raúl Fernández, Lindolfo
Collor, Alarico da Silveira, Sampaio Correa, Eduardo Espínola.
Argentina: Honorio Pueyrredón, Laurentino Olascoaga,
Felipe A. Espil.
Paraguay: Lisandro Díaz León.
Haiti: Fernando Dennis, Charles Riboul.
Dominican Republic: Francisco J. Peynado, Gustavo A.
Díaz, Elías Brache, Angel Morales, Tulio M. Cesteros, Ricardo Pérez
Alfonseca, Jacinto R. de Castro, Federico C. Alvarez.
United States of America: Charles Evans Hughes, Noble
Brandon Judah, Henry P. Fletcher, Oscar W. Underwood, Dwight W. Morrow,
Morgan J. O'Brien, James Brown Scott, Ray Liman Wilbur, Leo S. Rowe.
Cuba: Antonio S. de Bustamante, Orestes Ferrara,
Enrique Hernández Cartaya, José Manuel Cortina, Arístides Agüero, José
B. Alemán, Manuel Márquez Sterling, Fernando Ortiz, Néstor Carbonell,
Jesús María Barraqué.
Who, after having communicated to each other their full powers and found
them in good and due form, have agreed on the following:
Article 1. The contracting Republics accept and put
into force the Code of Private International Law annexed to the present
convention.
Article 2. The provisions of this Code shall be
applicable only among the contracting Republics and among the other
States which adhere to it in the manner
hereinafter provided.
Article 3. Each one of the contracting Republics, when
ratifying the present convention, may declare that it reserves
acceptance of one or more articles of the
annexed Code, and the provisions to which the reservation refers shall
not be binding up on it.
Article 4. The Code shall go into force, for the
Republics which ratify it, thirty days after the deposit of the
respective ratification, provided it has been
ratified by at least two of them.
Article 5. The ratification shall be deposited in the
office of the Pan American Union, which shall transmit copy thereof to
each of the contracting Republics.
Article 6. Noncontracting States or international
juristic persons desiring to adhere to this convention, and in whole or
in part to the annexed Code, shall
notify the office of the Pan American Union, which in its turn shall
inform all the existing contracting or adhering States. Six months
thereafter the State
or international juristic person interested may deposit in the office of
the Pan American Union the instrument of adherence, and shall be
reciprocally bound
by this convention 30 days after the adherence with regard to all those
governed thereby who have not made within that period any reservation
concerning the requested adherence.
Article 7. Any American Republic bound by this
convention which desires to modify in whole or in part the annexed Code
shall present the corresponding
proposal to the International Conference of American States for the
proper resolution.
Article 8. If any of the contracting or adhering
international juristic persons should wish to denounce the present
convention, it shall notify the denunciation in writing to the office of
the Pan American Union, which shall immediately transmit a certified
literal copy of the notification to the others, informing them of the
date on which it was received.
The denunciation shall take effect only in respect to
the contracting party which has notified it, and a year after it has
been received in the office of the Pan American Union.
Article 9. The office of the Pan American Union shall
keep a register of the dat.es of deposit of ratifications, and receipt
of adhesions and denunciations,
and shall issue certified copies of said register to every contracting
party requesting it. In testimony whereof the plenipotentiaries sign the
present convention and
affix thereto the seal of the Sixth International Conference of American
States.
Done at the city of Habana, Republic of Cuba, on the twentieth day of
February one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, in four copies,
written respectively in Spanish, French, English, and Portuguese, which
shall be deposited in the office of Pan American Union in order that it
may send a certified copy of all to each of the signatory Republics.