Have agreed as follows:
Article 14
Any dispute between Contracting States
concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention which cannot be
settled by other means shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice
at the request of any one of the parties to the dispute.
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Article 15
1. This Convention shall apply to all
non-self-governing, trust, colonial and other non-metropolitan territories for
the international relations of which any Contracting State is responsible; the
Contracting State concerned shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of
this article, at the time of signature, ratification or accession, declare the
non-metropolitan territory or territories to which the Convention shall apply
ipso facto as a result of such
signature, ratification or accession.
2. In any case in which, for the purpose of
nationality, a non-metropolitan territory is not treated as one with the
metropolitan territory, or in any case in which the previous con sent of a
non-metropolitan territory is required by the constitutional laws or practices
of the Contracting State or of the non-metropolitan territory for the
application of the Convention to that territory, that Contracting State shall
endeavour to secure the needed consent of the non-metropolitan territory within
the period of twelve months from the date of signature of the Convention by
that Contracting State, and when such consent has been obtained the Contracting
State shall notify the Secretary General of the United Nations. This Convention
shall apply to the territory or territories
named in such notification from
the date of its receipt by the Secretary-General.
3. After the expiry of the twelve-month period
mentioned in paragraph 2 of this article, the Contracting States concerned
shall inform the Secretary-General of the results of the consultations with
those non-metropolitan territories for whose international relations they are
responsible and whose consent to the application of this Convention may have
been withheld.
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Article 16
1. This Convention shall be open for signature
at the Headquarters of the United Nations from 30 August 1961 to 31 May 1962.
2. This Convention shall be open for signature
on behalf of:
(a) Any State Member of the United Nations;
(b) Any other State invited to attend the United
Nations Conference on the Elimination or Reduction of Future Statelessness;
(c) Any State to which an invitation to sign or
to accede may be addressed by the General Assembly of the United Nations.
3. This Convention shall be ratified and the
instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of
the United Nations.
4. This Convention shall be open for accession
by the States referred to in paragraph 2 of this article. Accession shall be
effected by the deposit of an instrument of accession with the
Secretary-General of the United Nations.
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Article 17
1. At the time of signature, ratification or
accession any State may make a reservation in respect of articles 11, 14 or 15.
2. No other reservations to this Convention
shall be admissible.
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Article 18
1. This Convention shall enter into force two
years after the date of the deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification or
accession.
2. For each State ratifying or acceding to this
Convention after the deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification or
accession, it shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the deposit by
such State of its instrument of ratification or accession or on the date on
which this Convention enters into force in accordance with the provisions of
paragraph I of this article, whichever is the later.
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Article 19
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this
Convention at any time by a written notification addressed to the
Secretary-General of the United Nations. Such denunciation shall take effect
for the Contracting State concerned one year after the date of its receipt by
the Secretary-General.
2. In cases where, in accordance with the
provisions of article 15, this Convention has become applicable to a
non-metropolitan territory of a Contracting State, that State may at any time
thereafter, with the consent of the territory concerned, give notice to the
Secretary-General of the United-Nations denouncing this Convention separately
in respect to that territory. The denunciation shall take effect one year after
the date of the receipt of such notice by the Secretary-General, who shall
notify all other Contracting States of such notice and the date of receipt
thereof.
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Article 20
1. The Secretary-General of the United Nations
shall notify all Members of the United Nations and the non-member States
referred to in article 16 of the following particulars:
(a) Signatures, ratifications and accessions
under article 16;
(b) Reservations under article 17;
(c) The date upon which this Convention enters
into force in pursuance of article 18;
(d) Denunciations under article 19.
2. The Secretary-General of the United Nations
shall, after the deposit of the sixth instrument of ratification or accession
at the latest, bring to the attention of the General Assembly the question of
the establishment, in accordance with article 11, of such a body as therein
mentioned.
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Article 21
This Convention shall be registered by the
Secretary-General of the United Nations on the date of its entry into force.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned
Plenipotentiaries have signed this Convention.
DONE at New York, this thirtieth day of August,
one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, in a single copy, of which the
Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic and
which shall be deposited in the archives of the United Nations, and certified
copies of which shall be delivered by the Secretary-General of the United
Nations to all members of the United Nations and to the non-member States
referred to in article 16 of this Convention.
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