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292 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRolling text (A/AC.254/4/Rev.2)“Article 26“Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval, accession and reservations“1. This Convention shall be open to all States for signature from [...] to [...]and thereafter at United Nations Headquarters in New York until [...].“2. The present Convention is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval.Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with theSecretary-General of the United Nations.“[3. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall receive and circulate toall States the text of reservations made by States Parties at the time of ratification,acceptance, approval or accession.] 2“[4. A reservation incompatible with the object and purpose of the presentConvention shall not be permitted.]“[5. Reservations may be withdrawn at any time by notification to that effectaddressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall then inform allStates. Such notification shall take effect on the date on which it is received by theSecretary-General.]“6. This Convention is subject to accession by any State. The instruments ofaccession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.”Sixth session: 6-17 December 1999Notes by the Secretariat2. The version of article 26 contained in document A/AC.254/4/Rev.2 remainedunchanged in the intermediate drafts of the convention (A/AC.254/4/Revs.3-5).Canada (A/AC.254/L.114)Canada proposed that the following text should be inserted in article 26 in placeof the existing text, within square brackets, of paragraphs 3, 4 and 5:“3. No reservations may be made in respect of any provision of thisConvention.”2Further to the comments of delegations highlighted in footnote 1, it should be mentioned that some delegations proposedthat paragraphs 3 to 5 should be placed in a separate article. One delegation proposed for consideration the possibilitythat only some provisions of the convention would be subject to reservations. Finally, some delegations noted that theissue of reservations could not be decided until the contents of the convention had been decided. It was therefore decidedto place paragraphs 3 to 5 in square brackets for the time being.