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A-37: CONVENTION ON POLITICAL ASYLUM

ADOPTED AT: MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
DATE: 12/26/33
CONF/ASSEM/MEETING: SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES         
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 03/28/35,  IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 7 OF THE CONVENTION   
DEPOSITORY: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF URUGUAY (ORIGINAL INSTRUMENT)
GENERAL SECRETARIAT, OAS (RATIFICATIONS)                    
TEXT: OAS, TREATY SERIES, NO. 34     
UN REGISTRATION:   /  /    No.         Vol.       
OBSERVATIONS:
              

GENERAL INFORMATION OF THE TREATY: A-37
COUNTRY SIGNATURE RATIFICATION/ACCESSION DEPOSIT INFORMATION*
Antigua & Barbuda - - - -
Argentina 12/26/33 - - -
Bahamas - - - -
Barbados - - - -
Belize - - - -
Bolivia - - - -
Brazil 12/26/33 09/01/36 02/23/37 RA -
Canada - - - -
Chile 12/26/33 02/02/35 03/28/35 RA -
Colombia 12/26/33 06/22/36 07/22/36 RA -
Costa Rica - 06/02/54 06/10/54 AD -
Cuba 12/26/33 12/20/50 01/17/51 RA -
Dominica - - - -
Dominican Republic 12/26/33 11/22/34 12/26/34 RA Yes
Ecuador 12/26/33 03/20/55 08/11/55 RA -
El Salvador 12/26/33 07/26/36 01/09/37 RA -
Grenada - - - -
Guatemala 12/26/33 04/28/35 07/03/35 RA -
Guyana - - - -
Haiti 12/26/33 06/29/51 12/01/74 RA Yes
Honduras 12/26/33 12/10/35 02/15/36 RA -
Jamaica - - - -
Mexico 12/26/33 08/13/35 01/27/36 RA -
Nicaragua 12/26/33 12/25/52 02/04/53 RA -
Panama 12/26/33 11/11/38 12/13/38 RA -
Paraguay 12/26/33 09/20/48 10/28/48 RA -
Peru 12/26/33 01/12/60 03/09/60 RA -
St. Kitts & Nevis - - - -
St. Lucia - - - -
St. Vincent & Grenadines - - - -
Suriname - - - -
Trinidad & Tobago - - - -
United States - - - Yes
Uruguay 12/26/33 - - -
Venezuela - - - -

*DECLARATIONS/RESERVATIONS/DENUNCIATIONS/WITHDRAWS
Declaration made upon approval of the Convention

United States:

Since the United States of America does not recognize or subscribe to, as part of international law, the doctrine of asylum, the delegation of the United States of America refrains from signing the present Convention on Political Asylum.

Haiti:

Denunciation: 08/01/67

Withdraw: 12/01/74

Dominican Republic:

Denunciation: 10/06/54

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