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World Meteorological Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Advice and consent to ratification of the Convention of the World Meteorological Organization was given by the United States Senate on April 20, 1949. The United States instrument of ratification was deposited on May 4, 1949 in the archives of the United States Government, which had been designated by the convention as the depository government. The convention was to enter into force thirty days after the date of the deposit of the thirtieth instrument of ratification or accession. The United States was the seventeenth government to deposit its instrument of ratification. The other governments were: Australia, Byelorussian SSR, Finland, Iceland, India, Lebanon, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Rumania, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukrainian SSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom and Yugoslavia.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Specialized Agencies
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1949

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1 Department of State Press Release 324, May 5, 1949. For information on the objectives of the organization, see International Organization, II, p. 377.