Article
85
The Secretary-General of the United
Nations is designated as the depositary of the present Convention.
Article 86
1. The present Convention shall
be open for signature by all States. It is subject to ratification.
2. The present Convention shall be open to accession by any State.
3. Instruments of ratification or accession shall be deposited
with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Article 87
1. The present Convention shall
enter into force on the first day of the month following a period
of three months after the date of the deposit of the twentieth
instrument of ratification or accession.
2. For each State ratifying or acceding to the present Convention
after its entry into force, the Convention shall enter into force
on the first day of the month following a period of three months
after the date of the deposit of its own instrument of ratification
or accession.
Article 88
A State ratifying or acceding to
the present Convention may not exclude the application of any
Part of it, or, without prejudice to article 3, exclude any particular
category of migrant workers from its application.
Article 89
1. Any State Party may denounce
the present Convention, not earlier than five years after the
Convention has entered into force for the State concerned, by
means of a notification writing addressed to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall become effective on the first day of
the month following the expiration of a period of twelve months
after the date of the receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
3. Such a denunciation shall not have the effect of releasing
the State Party from its obligations under the present Convention
in regard to any act or omission whi ch occurs prior to the date
at which the denunciation becomes effective, nor shall denunciation
prejudice in any way the continued consideration of any matter
which is already under consideration by the Committee prior to
the date at which the denunciation becomes effective.
4. Following the date at which the denunciation of a State Party
becomes effective, the Committee shall not commence consideration
of any new matter regarding that State.
Article 90
1. After five years from the entry
into force of the Convention a request for the revision of the
Convention may be made at any time by any State Party by means
of a notification in writing addressed to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations. The Secretary-General shall thereupon communicate
any proposed amendments to the States Parties with a request that
they notify him whether the favour a conference of States Parties
for the purpose of considering and voting upon the proposals.
In the event that within four months from the date of such communication
at least one third of the States Parties favours such a conference,
the Secretary-General shall convene the conference under the auspices
of the United Nations. Any amendment adopted by a majority of
the States Parties present and voting shall be submitted to the
General Assembly for approval.
2. Amendments shall come into force when they have been approved
by the General Assembly of the United Nations and accepted by
a two-thirds majority of the States Parties in accordance with
their respective constitutional processes.
3. When amendments come into force, they shall be binding on those
States Parties that have accepted them, other States Parties still
being bound by the provisions of the present Convention and any
earlier amendment that they have accepted.
Article 91
1. The Secretary-General of the
United Nations shall receive and circulate to all States the text
of reservations made by States at the time of signature, ratification
or accession.
2. A reservation incompatible with the object and purpose of the
present Convention shall not be permitted.
3. Reservations may be withdrawn at any time by notification to
this effect addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations,
who shall then inform all States thereof. Such notification shall
take effect on the date on which it is received.
Article 92
1. Any dispute between two or more
States Parties concerning the interpretation or application of
the present Convention that is not settled by negotiation shall,
at the request of one of them, be submitted to arbitration. If
within six months from the date of the request for arbitration
the Parties are unable to agree on the organization of the arbitration,
any one of those Parties may refer the dispute to the International
Court of Justice by request in conformity with the Statute of
the Court.
2. Each State Party may at the time of signature or ratification
of the present Convention or accession thereto declare that it
does not consider itself bound by paragraph 1 of the present article.
The other States Parties shall not be bound by that paragraph
with respect to any State Party that has made such a declaration.
3. Any State Party that has made a declaration in accordance with
paragraph 2 of the present article may at any time withdraw that
declaration by notification to the Secretary-General of the United
Nations.
Article 93
1. The present Convention, of which
the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts
are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
2. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall transmit
certified copies of the present Convention to all States.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned
plenipotentiaries, being duly authorized thereto by their respective
Governments, have signed the present Convention.
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