[Treaty] [text in Spanish]

ADOPTED AT: CARACAS, VENEZUELA                                          
DATE: 03/28/54
CONF/ASSEM/MEETING: TENTH INTER-AMERICAN CONFERENCE
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 12/29/54,  IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE XXIII OF THE CONVENTION
DEPOSITORY: GENERAL SECRETARIAT, OAS (ORIGINAL INSTRUMENT AND RATIFICATIONS)
TEXT: OAS, TREATY SERIES, NO. 18                                  
UN REGISTRATION: 03/20/89  No. 24377   Vol.       
OBSERVATIONS:

GENERAL INFORMATION OF THE TREATY: A-46

               
*DECLARATIONS/RESERVATIONS/DENUNCIATIONS/WITHDRAWLS

Guatemala:
     (Reservations made at the time of signature)                                                                              
We make an express reservation to Article II wherein it declares that the States are not obligated to grant asylum; because we uphold a broad, firm concept of the right to asylum.

Likewise, we make an express reservation to the final paragraph of Article XX (twenty), because we maintain that any person, without any discrimination whatsoever, has the right to the protection of asylum.

Honduras:                                                                             
     (Reservations made at the time of signature)                                                                              
The Delegation of Honduras subscribes to the Convention on Diplomatic Asylum with reservations with respect to those articles that are in violation of the Constitution and laws in force in the Republic of Honduras.

Dominican Republic:                                                                              
     (Reservations made at the time of signature)                                                                              
First: The Dominican Republic does not agree to the provisions contained in Article VII and those following with respect to the unilateral determination of the urgency by the State granting asylum; and
Second:  The provisions of this Convention shall not be applicable, consequently, insofar as the Dominican Republic is concerned, to any controversies that may arise between the territorial State and the State granting asylum, that refer specifically to the absence of a serious situation or the non-existence of a true act of persecution against the asylee by the local authorities.
Uruguay:                                                                              
     (Reservations made at the time of signature)                                                                              
The Government of Uruguay makes a reservation to Article II, in the part that stipulates that the authority granting asylum, is, in no case, obligated to grant asylum nor to state its reasons for refusing it.  It likewise makes a reservation to that part of Article XV that stipulates:  "the only requisite being the presentation, through diplomatic channels, of a safe-conduct, duly countersigned and bearing a notation of his status as asylee by the diplomatic mission that granted asylum.  En route, the asylee shall be considered under the protection of the State granting asylum."  Finally, it makes a reservation to the second paragraph of Article XX, since the Government of Uruguay understands that all persons have the right to asylum, whatever their sex, nationality, belief, or religion.
(Reservations made at the time of ratification)                                                                              
With the reservations made at the time of signature.

Haiti:

Denunciation: 08/01/67

Withdraw of Denunciation: 12/01/74

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