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A-53: PROTOCOL TO THE AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 
TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY

        ADOPTED AT: ASUNCION, PARAGUAY                                          

              DATE: 06/08/90

CONF/ASSEM/MEETING: TWENTIETH REGULAR SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY           
                            ,
  ENTRY INTO FORCE:   /  /     THIS PROTOCOL SHALL ENTER INTO FORCE AMONG THE   
                               STATES THAT RATIFY OR ACCEDE TO IT WHEN THEY     
                               DEPOSIT THEIR REPECTIVE INSTRUMENTS OF           
                               RATIFICATION OR ACCESSION (ARTICLE 4)            

        DEPOSITORY: OAS GENERAL SECRETARIAT (ORIGINAL INSTRUMENT AND            
                            ,           ,
                    RATIFICATIONS).                                             

              TEXT: OAS, TREATY SERIES, No. 73                                  

   UN REGISTRATION:   /  /    No.         Vol.       

      OBSERVATIONS:                                                             

GENERAL INFORMATION OF THE TREATY: A-53

*DECLARATIONS/RESERVATIONS/DENUNCIATIONS/WITHDRAWLS

A-53 PROTOCOL TO THE AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN  RIGHTS 
TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY 

STATEMENTS AND DECLARATIONS                                                   
                                                                              
                                                                              
1.   Brazil:                                                                  
                                                                              
     "In ratifying the Protocol to Abolish the Death Penalty,                 
adopted in Asunción on June 8, 1990, I make hereby, in compliance             
with constitutional requirements, a reservation under the terms of            
Article 2 of the said Protocol, which guarantees states parties the           
right to apply the death penalty in wartime in accordance with                
international law, for extremely serious crimes of a military                 
nature."

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