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562 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeNotes by the Secretariat1. The version of this article contained in A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.1 remainedunchanged in the intermediate drafts of the protocol (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Revs.2 and 3).Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.4)Sixth session: 6-17 December 1999“Article 18“Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval,accession and reservations“1. This Protocol shall be open to all States for signature from [...] to [...] andthereafter at United Nations Headquarters in New York until [...].“2. The present Protocol is subject to ratification, acceptance or approval.Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with theSecretary-General of the United Nations.“Option 1“[3. No reservations may be made in respect of any provision of this Protocol.]“Option 2“[3. Reservations shall be subject to the provisions of the Vienna Conventionon the Law of Treaties of 1969. 1 ]“[4. 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.]“[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 Reservations may be withdrawn at any time by notification to that effectaddressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall then inform allStates.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 Protocol is subject to accession by any State. The instruments of accessionshall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.”Notes by the Secretariat2. The text of article 18 is identical to the text of the corresponding provision of thedraft convention and is reproduced in accordance with a decision made by the Ad HocCommittee at its sixth session, without prejudice to its content, which was still under negotiation.Only necessary editorial changes were made to the text. For issues related to this1United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1155, No. 18232.