IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred sixty[SEAL] two and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred eighty-seventh. By the President: DEAN RUSK Secretary of State EDITOR'S NOTE JOHN F. KENNEDY The foregoing protocol has been ratified by the following countries on the dates indicated: August 16, 1962 October 3, 1963 December 7, 1962 November 30, 1964 October 3, 1961 July 12, 1961 - May 25, 1965 April 2, 1962 April 9, 1962 December 8, 1964 May 8, 1962 May 14, 1962 November 17, 1961 September 14, 1961 March 7, 1962 October 10, 1961 April 30, 1962 July 9, 1962 May 29, 1962 May 31, 1966 November 15, 1965 February 25, 1966 May 15, 1962 January 4, 1967 May 22, 1962 July 16, 1962 April 26, 1964 January 17, 1962 December 27, 1961 September 28, 1965 February 27, 1962 PROTOCOL AMENDING CONVENTION ON [S. Ex. D, 88th Congress, 1st Session] THE ASSEMBLY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION, HAVING MET in its Fourteenth Session, at Rome, on the twenty-first day of August, 1962, HAVING NOTED that it is the general desire of contracting States that the minimum number of contracting States which may request the holding of an extraordinary meeting of the Assembly should be increased from the present figure of ten, HAVING CONSIDERED it proper to increase the said number to onefifth of the total number of contracting States, AND HAVING CONSIDERED it necessary to amend for the purpose aforesaid the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the seventh day of December, 1944, APPROVED, on the fourteenth day of September of the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two, in accordance with the provisions of Article 94 (a) of the Convention aforesaid, the following proposed amendment to the said Convention: In Article 48(a) of the Convention, the second sentence be deleted and substituted by "An extraordinary meeting of the Assembly may be held at any time upon the call of the Council or at the request of not less than onefifth of the total number of contracting States addressed to the Secretary General." SPECIFIED, pursuant to the provisions of the said Article 94(a) of the said Convention, sixty-six as the number of contracting States upon whose ratification the proposed amendment aforesaid shall come into force, and RESOLVED, that the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization draw up a protocol, in the English, French and Spanish languages, each of which shall be of equal authenticity, embodying the proposed amendment above mentioned and the matter hereinafter appearing. CONSEQUENTLY, pursuant to the aforesaid action of the Assembly, This Protocol has been drawn up by the Secretary General of the Organization; This Protocol shall be open to ratification by any State which has ratified or adhered to the said Convention on International Civil Aviation; The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the International Civil Aviation Organization; 1 This protocol is not in force. It will enter into force with respect to the States which have ratified it on the date on which the 66th instrument of ratification is deposited. This Protocol shall come into force in respect of the States which have ratified it on the date on which the sixty-sixth instrument of ratification is so deposited; The Secretary General shall immediately notify all Contracting States of the date of deposit of each ratification of this Protocol; The Secretary General shall immediately notify all States parties or signatories to the said Convention of the date on which this Protocol comes into force; With respect to any contracting State ratifying this Protocol after the date aforesaid, the Protocol shall come into force upon deposit of its instrument of ratification with the International Čivil Aviation Organization. IN FAITH WHEREOF, the President and the Secretary General of the Fourteenth Session of the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization, being authorized thereto by the Assembly, sign this Protocol. DONE at Rome on the fifteenth day of September of the year one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two in a single document in the English, French and Spanish languages, each of which shall be of equal authenticity. This Protocol shall remain deposited in the archives of the International Civil Aviation Organization; and certified copies thereof shall be transmitted by the Secretary General of the Organization to all States parties or signatories to the Convention on International Civil Aviation aforementioned. The foregoing protocol has been ratified by the following countries on the dates indicated: |