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Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of
Armed Conflict. The Hague, 14 May 1954.
STATES PARTIES SIGNATURE RATIFICATION /
ACCESSION RESERVATION /DECLARATION
Albania 20.12.1960
Congo (Dem. Rep.) 18.04.1961
Costa Rica 03.06.1998
El Salvador 14.05.1954 27.03.2002
Estonia 17.01.2005
Finland 16.09.1994
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 30.04.1997
France 14.05.1954 07.06.1957
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Iran (Islamic Rep.of) 14.05.1954 22.06.1959
Iraq 14.05.1954 21.12.1967
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 14.05.1954 19.11.1957
Liechtenstein 28.04.1960
Moldova (Republic of) 09.12.1999
Monaco 14.05.1954 10.12.1957
Montenegro (Republic of) 26.04.2007
Morocco 30.08.1968
Russian Federation 14.05.1954 04.01.1957
San Marino 14.05.1954 09.02.1956
Saudi Arabia 06.11.2007
Senegal 17.06.1987
Serbia (Republic of) 14.05.1954 11.09.2001
Slovakia 31.03.1993
Slovenia 05.11.1992
Spain 14.05.1954 26.06.1992
Sweden 22.01.1985
Switzerland 15.05.1962
Syrian Arab Republic 14.05.1954 06.03.1958
Tajikistan 28.08.1992
Thailand 02.05.1958
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1) Ratification : a treaty is generally open for signature for a certain time following the conference which has adopted it. However, a signature is not binding on a State unless it has been endorsed by ratification. The time limits having elapsed, the Conventions and the Protocols are no longer open for signature. The States which have not signed them may at any time accede or, in the appropriate circumstances, succeed to them.
Accession : instead of signing and then ratifying a treaty, a State may become party to it by the single act called accession.
2) Reservation / Declaration : unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State when ratifying, acceding or succeeding to a treaty, whereby it purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain provisions of the treaty in their application to that State (provided that such reservations are not incompatible with the object and purpose of the treaty).
