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PROTOCOL RELATING TO AN AMENDEMENT TO THE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION, SIGNED AT MONTREAL, ON 30 SEPTEMBER 1977
(PROTOCOL AMENDING THE FINAL CLAUSE OF THE CHICAGO CONVENTION)
THE ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION
ORGANIZATION
HAVING MET in its Twenty-second Session at Montreal on 30
September 1977,
HAVING NOTED Resolution A21-13 on the authentic Russian text
of the Convention on International Civil Aviation,
HAVING NOTED that it is the general desire of Contracting States
to make a provision that the Convention aforesaid exist in authentic Russian
text,
HAVING CONSIDERED it necessary to amend, for the purpose
aforesaid, the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago
on the seventh day of December 1944,
1. APPROVES, in accordance with the provisions of Article 94(a)
of the Convention aforesaid, the following proposed amendment to the said
Convention:
Replace the present text of the final paragraph of the Convention
by:
"Done at Chicago the seventh day of December 1944 in the English
language. The texts of this Convention drawn up in the English, French,
Russian and Spanish languages are of equal authenticity. These texts shall
be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United States of
America, and certified copies shall be transmitted by that Government to the
Governments of all the States which may sign or adhere to this Convention.
This Convention shall be open for signature at Washington, D.C.",
2. SPECIFIES, pursuant to the provisions of the said Article 94(a)
of the said Convention, ninety-four as the number of Contracting States
upon whose ratification the proposed amendment aforesaid shall come into
force, and
3. RESOLVES that the Secretary General of the International Civil
Aviation Organization draw up a Protocol, in the English, French, Russian
and Spanish languages each of which shall be of equal authenticity
embodying the proposed amendment above-mentioned and the matter
hereinafter appearing.
CONSEQUENTLY, pursuant to the aforesaid action of the
Assembly,
This Protocol has been drawn up by the Secretary General of the
Organization.
The Protocol shall be open to ratification by any State which has
ratified or adhered to the said Convention on International Civil Aviation.
The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the
International Civil Aviation Organization.
The Protocol shall come into force in respect of the States which
have ratified it on the date on which the ninety-fourth instrument of
ratification is so deposited.
The Secretary General shall immediately notify all Contracting
States of the date of deposit of each ratification of the Protocol.
The Secretary General shall immediately notify all States parties to
the said Convention of the date on which the Protocol comes into force.
With respect to any Contracting State ratifying the Protocol after
the date aforesaid, the Protocol shall come into force upon deposit of its
instrument of ratification with the International Civil Aviation Organization.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the President and the Secretary General
of the aforesaid Twenty-second Session of the Assembly of the International
Civil Aviation Organization, being authorized thereto by the Assembly, sign
this Protocol.
DONE at Montreal on the thirtieth day of September of the year one
thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven, in a single document in the
English, French, Russian, and Spanish languages, each of which shall be of
equal authenticity. This Protocol shall remain deposited in the archives of
the International Civil Aviation Organization, and certified copies thereof
shall be transmitted by the Secretary General of the Organization to all
States parties to the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at
Chicago on the seventh day of December 1944.
K.O Rattray Y. Lambert
President of the 22nd Session Secretary General
of the Assembly
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