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United States: Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1987

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Christopher C. Joyner
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International Legal Materials , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , May 1989 , pp. 754 - 785
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1989

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1/ Full name and address, telephone, telex or telefax number and the name,address,telephone,telex or telefax number of the person to be contacted in case of emergency.

* *[The reservations of The Ukrainian Soviet “Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were withdrawn respectively on April 20, 1989, and March 8, 1989.]

1/ For other multilateral treaties concluded in the field of human rights. See chapters V, VII, XVI,XVII and XVIII.

2/ Resolution 260 (III), Official Records of the General Assembly. Third Session, Part I (A/810), p. 174.

3/ Ratified on behalf of the Republic of China on 19 July 1951. See note concerning signatures, ratifications, accessions, etc. on behalf of China (note 2 in chapter I.I).

4/ In a note accompanying the instrument of accession, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany stated that the Convention would also apply to Land Berlin. With reference to the above-mentioned declaration, a communication from the German Democratic Republic was received by the Secretary-General on 27 December 1973. The text of the communication is identical, mutatis mutandis, to that published in note 2 of chapter III.3, paragraph 4. In this connexion, the Secretary-General received from the Governments of France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America (17 June 1974 and 8 July 197b), the Federal Republic of Germany (15 July 1974 and 19 September 1975), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (12 September 1974 and 8 December 1975), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (19 September 1974), communications identical in essence, mutatis mutandis, to the corresponding ones reproduced in note 2, chapter III.3.

5/ Accession on behalf of the Republic of South Viet Nam on 11 August 1950. (For the text of objections to some of the reservations made upon the said accession, see publication, Multilateral Treaties for which the Secretary-General acts as Depositary (ST/LEG/SER.D/13, P-91); also see note 22 in chapter I.2.

6/ The Secretary-General received on 9 November 1981 from the Government of the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea the following objection with regard to the accession by Viet Nam: The Government of Democratic Kampuchea, as a party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, considers that the signing of that Convention by the Government of the Socialist Republic of Uiet Nam has no legal force, because it is no more than a cynical, macabre charade intended to camouflage the foul crimes of genocide committed by the 250,000 soldiers of the Vietnamese invasion army in Kampuchea. It is an odious insult to the memory of the more than 2,500,000 Kampucheans who have been massacred by these same Vietnamese armed forces using conventional weapons, chemical weapons and the weapon of famine, created deliberately by them for the purpose of eliminating all national resistance at its source. It is also a gross insult to hundreds of thousands of Laotians who have been massacred or compelled to take refuge abroad since the occupation of Laos by the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, to the Among national minority in Laos, exterminated by Vietnamese conventional.

7/ International Court of Justice. Report 1951. p.15.

8/ Resolution 598 (VI); Official Records of the General assembly. Sixth Session. Supplement No. 20 (A/2119), p. 84.

9/ By a notification received by the Secretary-General on 29 January 1982, the Government of Cuba withdrew the declaration made on its behalf upon ratification of the said Convention with respect to the reservations to articles IX and XI by Bulgaria, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

10 On 3 October 1983, the Secretary-General received form the Government of Argentina the following objection: [The Government of Argentina makes a] formal objection to the [declaration] of territorial extension issued by the United Kingdom with regard to the Malvinas Islands (and dependencies), which that country is illegally occupying and refers to as the “Falkland Islands”. The Argentine Republic rejects and considers null and void the [said declaration] of territorial extension. With reference to the above-mentioned objection the Secretary-General received, on 28 February 1985, from the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland the following declaration: For the text of the declaration see note 9 in chapter III.11