accession:
"The Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have consistently stated that they are unable to accept reservations to article IX. In their view, these are not the kind of reservations which intending parties to the Convention have the right to make.
Accordingly, the Government of the United Kingdom do not accept the reservations entered by the Government of Singapore and Malaysia to article IX of the Convention."
Territorial Application
Participant Date of receipt of Territories
the notification
Australia 8 Jul 1949 All Overseas Territories of Australia
Belgium 13 Mar 1952 Belgian Congo and Trust Territory of
Ruanda-Urundi
United Kingdom 2 Jun 1970 Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin
of Great Britain Islands, Channel Islands, Dominica,
and Northern Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and
Ireland <4>, Dependencies, Fiji, Gibraltar,
<33> Grenada, Hong Kong, Isle of Man,
Pitcairn Island, St. Helena and
Dependencies, St. Lucia, Seychelles,
St. Vincent and Turks and Caicos
Islands
2 Jun 1970 Tonga
End Note
1. Resolution 260 (III), Official Records of the General Assembly, Third Session, Part I (A/810), p. 174.
2. The former Yugoslavia had signed and ratified the Convention on 11 December 1948 and 29 August 1950, respectively. See also note 1 under "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "Croatia", "former Yugoslavia", "Slovenia", "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and "Yugoslavia" in the "Historical Information" section in the front matter of this volume.
3. The following communication, received by the Secretary-General on 15 June 1993, was transmitted prior to Yugoslavia's admission to membership in the United Nations by General Assembly resolution A/55/12 on 1 November 2000, and its accession to the Convention, deposited with the Secretary-General on 12 March 2001:
"Considering the fact that the replacement of sovereignty on the part of the territory of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia previously comprising the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina was carried out contrary to the rules of international law, the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia herewith states that it does not consider the so-called Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina a party to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, but does consider that the so-called Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina is bound by the obligation to respect the norms on preventing and punishing the crime of genocide in accordance with general international law irrespective of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
See also note 2 in this chapter and note 1 under "former Yugoslavia" in the "Historical Information" section in the front matter of this volume.
4. On 6 and 10 June 1997, the Secretary-General received communications concerning the status of Hong Kong from the Governments of the United Kingdom and China (see also note 2 under "China" and note 2 under "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" regarding Hong Kong in the "Historical Information" section in the front matter of this volume). Upon resuming the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, China notified the Secretary-General that the Convention with the reservation made by China will also apply to the Hong Kong Special A
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