Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 14 May 1954.¹

	States	Date of deposit of instrument	Type of instrument
1	Egypt	17/08/1955	Ratification
2	San Marino	09/02/1956	Ratification
3	Myanmar	10/02/1956	Ratification
4	Mexico	07/05/1956	Ratification
5	Poland	06/08/1956	Ratification
6	Hungary	16/08/1956	Accession
7	Russian Federation	04/01/1957	Ratification
8	Ukraine	06/02/1957	Ratification
9	Belarus	07/05/1957	Ratification
10	France	07/06/1957	Ratification
11	Jordan	02/10/1957	Ratification
12	Libya	19/11/1957	Ratification
13	Cuba	26/11/1957	Ratification
14	Monaco	10/12/1957	Ratification
15	Holy See	24/02/1958	Accession
16	Syrian Arab Republic	06/03/1958	Ratification
17	Romania	21/03/1958	Ratification
18	Israel	01/04/1958	Accession
19	Thailand	02/05/1958	Accession
20	Italy	09/05/1958	Ratification
21	India	16/06/1958	Ratification
22	Brazil	12/09/1958	Ratification
23	Bulgaria	09/10/1958	Accession
24	Netherlands	14/10/1958	Ratification
25	Pakistan	27/03/1959	Accession
26	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	22/06/1959	Ratification
27	Nicaragua	25/11/1959	Ratification
28	Liechtenstein	28/04/1960	Accession
29	Lebanon	01/06/1960	Ratification
30	Ghana	25/07/1960	Accession
31	Belgium	16/09/1960	Ratification
32	Malaysia	12/12/1960	Accession
33	Albania	20/12/1960	Accession
34	Ecuador	08/02/1961	Ratification
35	Democratic Republic of the Congo	18/04/1961	Accession
36	Mali	18/05/1961	Accession
37	Nigeria	05/06/1961	Accession
38	Norway	19/09/1961	Ratification
39	Luxembourg	29/09/1961	Ratification
40	Cameroon	12/10/1961	Accession
41	Madagascar	03/11/1961	Accession
42	Gabon	04/12/1961	Accession
43	Guinea	11/12/1961	Accession
44	Cambodia	04/04/1962	Accession
45	Switzerland	15/05/1962	Accession
46	Austria	25/03/1964	Ratification
47	Cyprus	09/09/1964	Accession
48	Turkey	15/12/1965	Accession
49	Indonesia	26/07/1967	Ratification
50	Germany	11/08/1967	Ratification
51	Iraq	21/12/1967	Ratification
52	Morocco	30/08/1968	Accession
53	Yemen	06/02/1970	Accession
54	Kuwait	17/02/1970	Accession
55	Niger	06/12/1976	Accession
56	Tunisia	28/01/1981	Accession
57	Greece	09/02/1981	Ratification
58	Sweden	22/01/1985	Accession
59	Burkina Faso	04/02/1987	Accession
60	Senegal	17/06/1987	Accession
61	Peru	21/07/1989	Accession
62	Spain	26/06/1992	Accession
63	Croatia	06/07/1992	Notification of succession
64	Tajikistan	28/08/1992	Notification of succession
65	Georgia	04/11/1992	Notification of succession
66	Slovenia	05/11/1992	Notification of succession
67	Czech Republic	26/03/1993	Notification of succession
68	Slovakia	31/03/1993	Notification of succession
69	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12/07/1993	Notification of succession
70	Armenia	05/09/1993	Notification of succession
71	Azerbaijan	20/09/1993	Accession
72	Guatemala	19/05/1994	Accession
73	Finland	16/09/1994	Accession
74	Kazakhstan	14/03/1997	Notification of succession
75	The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	30/04/1997	Notification of succession
76	Costa Rica	03/06/1998	Accession
77	Colombia	18/06/1998	Accession
78	Lithuania	27/07/1998	Accession
79	Uruguay	24/09/1999	Ratification
80	Republic of Moldova	09/12/1999	Accession
81	China	05/01/2000	Accession
82	Panama	08/03/2001	Accession
83	Serbia	11/09/2001	Notification of succession
84	Dominican Republic	21/03/2002	Accession
85	El Salvador	27/03/2002	Accession
86	Honduras	25/10/2002	Accession
87	Denmark	26/03/2003	Ratification
88	Latvia	19/12/2003	Accession
89	Paraguay	09/11/2004	Accession
90	Estonia	17/01/2005	Accession
91	Portugal	18/02/2005	Accession
92	Canada	29/11/2005	Accession
93	Bangladesh	23/06/2006	Accession
94	Montenegro	26/04/2007	Notification of succession
95	Argentina	10/05/2007	Accession
96	Japan	10/09/2007	Ratification
97	Saudi Arabia	06/11/2007	Accession
98	Bahrain	26/08/2008	Accession
99	Chile	11/09/2008	Accession
100	Barbados	02/10/2008	Accession
101	Palestine	22/03/2012	Accession
102	Benin	17/04/2012	Accession

¹This Protocol entered into force on 7 August 1956. 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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Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 14 May 1954.¹