Convention concerning the Exchange of Official Publications and Government Documents between States. Paris, 3 December 1958.¹

	States	Date of deposit of instrument	Type of instrument
1	Sri Lanka	07/12/1959	Ratification
2	Israel	04/01/1960	Ratification
3	France	30/05/1960	Ratification
4	Guatemala	23/11/1960	Ratification
5	Ecuador	08/02/1961	Ratification
6	China²	26/04/1961	Ratification
7	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	01/06/1961	Acceptance
8	Italy	02/08/1961	Acceptance
9	Panama	17/07/1962	Ratification
10	Russian Federation	08/10/1962	Ratification
11	Egypt	22/10/1962	Ratification
12	Belarus	10/12/1962	Ratification
13	Hungary	10/12/1962	Acceptance
14	Ukraine	19/12/1962	Ratification
15	Spain	01/02/1963	Ratification
16	New Zealand	05/02/1963	Ratification
17	Bulgaria	04/03/1963	Ratification
18	Cuba	01/08/1963	Ratification
19	Ghana	06/12/1963	Ratification
20	Denmark	10/11/1964	Ratification
21	Romania	09/06/1965	Ratification
22	Malta	18/05/1966	Notification of succession
23	Indonesia	10/01/1967	Acceptance
24	Finland	26/05/1967	Ratification
25	United States of America	09/06/1967	Ratification
26	Luxembourg	13/12/1967	Ratification
27	Morocco	30/08/1968	Acceptance
28	Norway	19/09/1968	Acceptance
29	Germany	03/10/1969	Ratification
30	Poland	12/02/1970	Acceptance
31	Nigeria	22/07/1970	Acceptance
32	Dominican Republic	24/08/1972	Ratification
33	Libya	09/01/1973	Ratification
34	Central African Republic	20/07/1973	Ratification
35	Iraq	27/12/1973	Acceptance
36	Belgium	22/10/1975	Ratification
37	Netherlands	21/11/1975	Acceptance
38	Sweden	10/06/1980	Acceptance
39	Solomon Islands	06/10/1981	Notification of succession
40	Dominica	14/03/1983	Notification of succession
41	Japan	29/05/1984	Acceptance
42	Australia	15/06/1984	Acceptance
43	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	22/01/1985	Notification of succession
44	Brunei Darusalaam	25/01/1985	Notification of succession
45	Tajikistan	28/08/1992	Notification of succession
46	Georgia	04/11/1992	Notification of succession
47	Lithuania	10/03/1993	Acceptance
48	Czech Republic	26/03/1993	Notification of succession
49	Slovakia	31/03/1993	Notification of succession
50	Estonia	07/06/1993	Ratification
51	Saudi Arabia	28/01/2003	Ratification

¹This Convention entered into force on 30 May 1961. It subsequently entered into force for each State 12 months after the date of deposit of that State’s instrument, except in cases of notifications of succession, where the entry into force occurred on the date on which the State assumed responsibility for conducting its international relations.

²Instrument of ratification deposited by the authorities representing China at UNESCO at the time of the deposit. The Director-General received from the Permanent Delegation of the People’s Republic of China to UNESCO the following communication dated 2 September 1974: “All signatures affixed to the Convention concerning the International Exchange of Publications by the Chiang Kai-shek Clique usurping the name of China are illegal and without force. The Chinese Government does not recognize them and shall in no way be bound by them”. By a communication dated 17 May 1988, the Permanent Delegation of the People’s Republic of China to UNESCO informed the Director-General that the preceding declaration also applied to the Convention concerning the Exchange of Official Publications and Government Documents between States and to the Convention against Discrimination in Education.

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Convention concerning the Exchange of Official Publications and Government Documents between States. Paris, 3 December 1958.¹