notification¦
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¦Argentina ¦ 5 Nov 1984 ¦
¦Australia ¦ 1 Dec 1967 ¦
¦Benin ¦ 6 Jul 1970 ¦
¦Brazil ¦14 Feb 1990 ¦
¦Cameroon ¦29 Dec 1961 ¦
¦Central African Republic ¦15 Oct 1962 ¦
¦Chile ¦28 Jan 1972 ¦
¦Colombia ¦10 Oct 1961 ¦
¦Cote d'Ivoire ¦20 Dec 1966 ¦
¦Ecuador ¦ 1 Feb 1972 ¦
¦France ¦ 3 Feb 1971 ¦
¦Holy See ¦17 Nov 1961 ¦
¦Hungary ¦ 8 Jan 1998 ¦
¦Iran (Islamic Republic of) ¦27 Sep 1976 ¦
¦Italy ¦ 1 Mar 1990 ¦
¦Latvia ¦ 3 Nov 1997 ¦
¦Luxembourg ¦22 Aug 1972 ¦
¦Malta ¦17 Jan 2002 ¦
¦Niger ¦ 7 Dec 1964 ¦
¦Paraguay ¦10 Jan 1991 ¦
¦Peru ¦ 8 Dec 1980 ¦
¦Portugal ¦13 Jul 1976 ¦
¦Senegal ¦12 Oct 1964 ¦
¦Sudan ¦ 7 Mar 1974 ¦
¦Togo ¦23 Oct 1962 ¦
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13. On 21 January 1983, the Secretary-General received from the Government of Botswana the following communication:
"Having simultaneously acceded to the Convention and Protocol [relating to the status of refugees done at New York on 31 January 1967] on the 6th January 1969 and in view of the fact that the Protocol provides in article I (2) that the term "refugee" shall ...mean any person within the definition of article 1 of the Convention" as if the words "As a result of events occurring before 1 January 1951 and" ...and the words "...as a result of such events", in article [I (A) (2)] were omitted and thus modifies in effect the provisions of article 1 of the Convention, it is the position of the Government of Botswana that no separate declaration under article 1.B(1) of the Convention is required in the circumstances."
On the basis of the afore-mentioned communication, the Secretary-General has included Botswana in the list of States having chosen formula (b) under section В of article 1.
Subsequently, in a communication, received by the Secretary-General on 29 April 1986, and with reference to article 1 B (1) of the above-mentioned Convention, the Government of Botswana confirmed that it has no objection to be listed among the States applying the Convention without any geographical limitation.
14. The instrument of accession contains the following declaration:
"...The mandatory declaration specifying which of the two meanings in Article 1 (B) (1) a Contracting State applies for the purpose of its obligations under the Convention has been superseded by the provisions of Article 1 of the Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees of 31 January 1967. Furthermore, the previous date-line would render Malawi's accession nugatory.
"Consequently, and since [the Government of the Republic of Malawi] is simultaneously acceding to the said Protocol, the obligations hereby assumed by the Government of the Republic of Malawi are not limited by the previous dateline or bounded by the concomitant geographic limitation in the Convention."
On the basis of the above declaration, the Secretary-General has
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