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United Nations Disarmament Yearbook 2011: Part II
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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)
opened for Signature at new york: 24 September 1996
not yet in force j
depoSitary: Secretary-General of the United Nations
new SignatorieS: None
total number of SignatorieS: 181
new partieS: Ghana —14 June
Guinea —22 September
total number of partieS: 155
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling,
Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines
and on Their Destruction (Mine Ban Convention)
opened for Signature at ottawa: 3 December 1997
entered into force: 1 March 1999
depoSitary: Secretary-General of the United Nations
new partieS: k South Sudan —11 November (s)
Tuvalu —13 September (a)
total number of partieS: 158
Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing
of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives,
and Other Related Materials
opened for Signature at waShington, d.c.: 14 November 1997
entered into force: 1 July 1998
depoSitary: Organization of American States
new partieS: l None
total number of partieS: 30
j Article XIV, paragraph 1, states:
“This Treaty shall enter into force 180 days after the date of deposit of the
instruments of ratification by all States listed in Annex II to this Treaty, but in no
case earlier than two years after its opening for signature.”
k Article 17, paragraph 2, states:
“For any State which deposits its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval
or accession after the date of the deposit of the 40th instrument of ratification,
acceptance, approval or accession, this Convention shall enter into force on the
first day of the sixth month after the date on which that State has deposited its
instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.”
l Article XXV, states:
“This Convention shall enter into force on the 30th day following the date of deposit
of the second instrument of ratification. For each State ratifying the Convention
after the deposit of the second instrument of ratification, the Convention shall enter
into force on the 30th day following deposit by such State of its instrument of
ratification.”