Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Paris, 14 November 1970.¹

	States	Date of deposit of instrument	Type of instrument
1	Ecuador	24/03/1971	Acceptance
2	Bulgaria	15/09/1971	Ratification
3	Nigeria	24/01/1972	Ratification
4	Central African Republic	01/02/1972	Ratification
5	Cameroon	24/05/1972	Ratification
6	Kuwait	22/06/1972	Acceptance
7	Cambodia	26/09/1972	Ratification
8	Mexico	04/10/1972	Acceptance
9	Niger	16/10/1972	Ratification
10	Libya	09/01/1973	Ratification
11	Argentina	11/01/1973	Ratification
12	Iraq	12/02/1973	Acceptance
13	Brazil	16/02/1973	Ratification
14	Dominican Republic	07/03/1973	Ratification
15	Egypt	05/04/1973	Acceptance
16	Panama	13/08/1973	Acceptance
17	Poland	31/01/1974	Ratification
18	Jordan	15/03/1974	Ratification
19	Algeria	24/06/1974	Ratification
20	Democratic Republic of the Congo	23/09/1974	Ratification
21	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	27/01/1975	Acceptance
22	Syrian Arab Republic	21/02/1975	Acceptance
23	Tunisia	10/03/1975	Acceptance
24	Nepal	23/06/1976	Ratification
25	Saudi Arabia	08/09/1976	Acceptance
26	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	04/10/1976	Ratification
27	India	24/01/1977	Ratification
28	Nicaragua	19/04/1977	Ratification
29	Qatar	20/04/1977	Acceptance
30	Mauritania	27/04/1977	Ratification
31	United Republic of Tanzania	02/08/1977	Ratification
32	Uruguay	09/08/1977	Ratification
33	El Salvador	20/02/1978	Ratification
34	Mauritius	27/02/1978	Acceptance
35	Canada	28/03/1978	Acceptance
36	Oman	02/06/1978	Acceptance
37	Italy	02/10/1978	Ratification
38	Hungary	23/10/1978	Ratification
39	Guinea	18/03/1979	Ratification
40	Honduras	19/03/1979	Ratification
41	Cyprus	19/10/1979	Ratification
42	Peru	24/10/1979	Acceptance
43	Cuba	30/01/1980	Ratification
44	Sri Lanka	07/04/1981	Acceptance
45	Turkey	21/04/1981	Ratification
46	Pakistan	30/04/1981	Ratification
47	Greece	05/06/1981	Ratification
48	Republic of Korea	14/02/1983	Acceptance
49	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	13/05/1983	Ratification
50	United States of America	02/09/1983	Acceptance
51	Senegal	09/12/1984	Ratification
52	Guatemala	14/01/1985	Ratification
53	Zambia	21/06/1985	Ratification
54	Portugal	09/12/1985	Ratification
55	Spain	10/01/1986	Ratification
56	Mali	06/04/1987	Ratification
57	Burkina Faso	07/04/1987	Ratification
58	Bangladesh	09/12/1987	Ratification
59	Belarus	28/04/1988	Ratification
60	Russian Federation	28/04/1988	Ratification
61	Ukraine	28/04/1988	Ratification
62	Colombia	24/05/1988	Acceptance
63	Madagascar	21/06/1989	Ratification
64	Australia	30/10/1989	Acceptance
65	China	28/11/1989	Acceptance
66	Belize	26/01/1990	Ratification
67	Côte d'Ivoire	30/10/1990	Ratification
68	Mongolia	23/05/1991	Acceptance
69	Angola	07/11/1991	Ratification
70	Croatia	06/07/1992	Notification of succession
71	Lebanon	25/08/1992	Ratification
72	Tajikistan	28/08/1992	Ratification
73	Grenada	10/09/1992	Acceptance
74	Georgia	04/11/1992	Notification of succession
75	Slovenia	05/11/1992	Notification of succession
76	Czechia	26/03/1993	Notification of succession
77	Slovakia	31/03/1993	Notification of succession
78	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12/07/1993	Notification of succession
79	Armenia	05/09/1993	Notification of succession
80	Romania	06/12/1993	Acceptance
81	Kyrgyzstan	03/07/1995	Acceptance
82	Estonia	27/10/1995	Ratification
83	Costa Rica	06/03/1996	Ratification
84	Uzbekistan	15/03/1996	Ratification
85	France	07/01/1997	Ratification
86	North Macedonia	30/04/1997	Notification of succession
87	Bahamas	09/10/1997	Ratification
88	Lithuania	27/07/1998	Ratification
89	Finland	14/06/1999	Ratification
90	Azerbaijan	25/08/1999	Ratification
91	Serbia	11/09/2001	Notification of succession
92	Rwanda	25/09/2001	Ratification
93	Barbados	10/04/2002	Acceptance
94	Albania	13/06/2002	Acceptance
95	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	01/08/2002	Acceptance
96	Japan	09/09/2002	Acceptance
97	Bhutan	26/09/2002	Ratification
98	Sweden	13/01/2003	Ratification
99	Morocco	03/02/2003	Ratification
100	Denmark	26/03/2003	Ratification
101	Gabon	29/08/2003	Acceptance
102	Switzerland	03/10/2003	Acceptance
103	South Africa	18/12/2003	Acceptance
104	Seychelles	28/05/2004	Ratification
105	Paraguay	09/11/2004	Ratification
106	Iceland	09/11/2004	Ratification
107	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	21/03/2005	Acceptance
108	Afghanistan	08/09/2005	Acceptance
109	Viet Nam	20/09/2005	Ratification
110	Zimbabwe	30/05/2006	Acceptance
111	New Zealand	01/02/2007	Acceptance
112	Norway	16/02/2007	Ratification
113	Montenegro	26/04/2007	Notification of succession
114	Republic of Moldova	14/09/2007	Ratification
115	Germany	30/11/2007	Ratification
116	Chad	17/06/2008	Ratification
117	Belgium	31/03/2009	Ratification
118	Netherlands	17/07/2009	Acceptance
119	Haiti	08/02/2010	Ratification
120	Equatorial Guinea	17/06/2010	Ratification
121	Kazakhstan	09/02/2012	Ratification
122	Palestine	22/03/2012	Ratification
123	Eswatini	30/10/2012	Acceptance
124	Lesotho	17/07/2013	Ratification
125	Myanmar	05/09/2013	Ratification
126	Bahrain	07/03/2014	Ratification
127	Chile	18/04/2014	Ratification
128	Luxembourg	03/02/2015	Ratification
129	Austria	15/07/2015	Ratification
130	Lao People's Democratic Republic	22/12/2015	Acceptance
131	Ghana	20/01/2016	Ratification
132	Benin	01/03/2017	Ratification
133	Botswana	23/08/2017	Acceptance
134	Monaco	25/08/2017	Ratification
135	United Arab Emirates	09/10/2017	Ratification
136	Ethiopia	22/11/2017	Ratification
137	Djibouti	09/04/2018	Ratification
138	Togo	19/11/2018	Ratification
139	Latvia	21/01/2019	Ratification
140	Yemen	03/06/2019	Ratification

¹This Convention entered into force on 24 April 1972. It subsequently entered into force for each State three 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.

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Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Paris, 14 November 1970.¹