APPENDIX CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE! Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on Dec. 9, 19482 [Entry into force: Jan. 12, 1951, in accordance with art. XIII. Registration: Jan. 12, 1951, No. 1021. Text: United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 78, p. 277) Bahamas.. Signature Sept. 5, 1951. Apr. 15, 1952. Bulgaria. July 21, 1950. Burma.. Dec. 30, 1949. Mar. 14, 1956. Byelorussian S.S.R. Dec. 16, 1949. Aug. 11, 1954. Canada.. Nov. 28, 1949. Sept. 3, 1952. June 3, 1953 CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE Continued Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on Dec. 9, 1948 2 [Entry into force: Jan. 12, 1951, in accordance with art. XIII. Registration: Jan. 12, 1951, No. 1021. Text: United Nations Treaty Series, vol. 78, p. 277] Peru... Dec. 11, 1948. Feb. 24, 1960. July 31, 1950.* Sept. 14, 1965.* Aug. 29, 1950. Additions: Barbados.. Vietnam.. 1 For other multilateral treaties concluded in the field of human rights, see chapters V, VII, XVI, XVII and XVIII. 2 Resolution 260 (111), see "Official Records of the General Assembly, Third Session" part I (A/810), p. 174. In a notification made on ratification, the Government of Australia extended the application of the Convention to all territories for the conduct of whose foreign relations Australia is responsible. In a notification received by the Secretary-General on Mar. 13, 1952, the Government of Belgium extended the application of the Convention to Belgian Congo and the Trust Territory of Ruanda Urundi. 5 Ratified on behalf of the Republic of China on July 19, 1951. See note concerning signatures, ratifications. accessions etc., on behalf of China, Preface, p. iii. 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 Dec. 27, 1973. The text of the communication is identical, mutatis mutandis, to that published in footnote 3, 4th par. p. 52. In this connection, the Secretary-General received from the Governments of France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America June 17, 1974, and July 8, 1975), the Federal Republic of Germany (July 15, 1974, and Sept. 19, 1975), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Sept. 12, 1974, and Dec. 8, 1975) and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Sept. 19, 1974), communications identical in essence, mutatis mutandis) to the corresponding ones reproduced in footnote 3, p. 52. 7 See note 4b, p. 54. 8 In a notification made on accession, the Government of the United Kingdom extended the application of the Convention to the following territories for whose conduct of international relations the United Kingdom is responsible: Channel Islands, Isle of Man; Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent; Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands and Dependencies, Fiji, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Pitcairn, St. Helena and Dependencies, Seychelles, Turks and Caicos Islands. In a notification received by the Secretary-General on June 2, 1970, the Government of the United Kingdom extended the application of the Convention to the Kingdom of Tonga for whose international relations the United Kingdom is or was then responsible. 94TH CONGRESS 2d Session } SENATE { Ex. REPORT INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE Mr. HUMPHREY, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS JOHN SPARKMAN, Alabama, Chairman MIKE MANSFIELD, Montana STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware CLIFFORD P. CASE, New Jersey JACOB K. JAVITS, New York HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania JAMES B. PEARSON, Kansas CHARLES H. PERCY, Illinois ROBERT P. GRIFFIN, Michigan PAT M. HOLT, Chief of Staff ARTHUR M. KUHL, Chief Clerk (II) CONTENTS Page 2. Background of the Convention__ 4. Provisions of the Convention : Genocide an international crime (art. I). Act constituting genocide (art. II). Punishment of persons (art. IV). Role of the United Nations (art. VIII) Settlement of disputes (art. IX). 5. The Convention and the Constitution_ (A) Text of President Truman's letter transmitting the Genocide Convention to the Senate, including the text of the Conven- (B) Implementing legislation, S. 3155_. |