Article 19
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by
a written notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United
Nations. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State
concerned one year after the date of its receipt by the Secretary-General.
2. In cases where, in accordance with the provisions of Article 15, this
Convention has become applicable to a non-metropolitan territory of a
Contracting State, that State may at any time thereafter, with the consent of
the territory concerned, give notice to the Secretary-General of the United
Nations denouncing this Convention separately in respect of that territory.
The denunciation shall take effect one year after the date of the receipt of
such notice by the Secretary-General, who shall notify all other Contracting
States of such notice and the date or receipt thereof.
Article 20
1. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify all Members
of the United Nations and the non-member States referred to in Article 16
of the following particulars:
(a) signatures, ratifications and accessions under Article 16;
(b) reservations under Article 17;
(c) the date upon which this Convention enters into force in pursuance
of Article 18;
(d) denunciations under Article 19.
2. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall, after the deposit
of the sixth instrument of ratification or accession at the latest, bring to the
attention of the General Assembly the question of the establishment, in
accordance with Article 11, of such a body as therein mentioned.
Article 21
This Convention shall be registered by the Secretary-General of the
United Nations on the date of its entry into force.
In witness of the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this
Convention.
Done at New York, this thirtieth day of August, one thousand nine
hundred and sixty-one, in a single copy, of which the Chinese, English,
French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic and which shall
be deposited in the archives of the United Nations, and certified copies of
which shall be delivered by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to
all Members of the United Nations and to the non-member States referred
to in Article 16 of this Convention.
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