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Convention on the
Recognition and Enforcement of
Foreign Arbitral
Awards (New York, 1958)
Unofficial Status Of Convention
(As of 22 February 1996). Courtesy of UNCITRAL
Signatures only: 2;
ratifications, accessions and successions: 108
| State |
* |
Signature |
Ratification
Accession
Succession
(*) |
| Algeria |
1/
2/ 7 |
|
February 1989 |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
1/
2/ 2 |
|
February 1989 |
| Argentina |
1/
2/ 7/ |
26
August 1958 |
14
March 1989 |
| Australia |
|
|
26
March 1975 |
| Austria |
|
|
2
May 1961 |
| Bahrain |
1/
2/ |
|
6
April 1988 |
| Bangladesh |
|
|
6
May 1992 |
| Barbados |
2/
|
|
16
March 1993 |
| Belarus |
1/
3/ |
29
December 1958 |
15
November |
| 1960Belgium |
1/
|
10
June 1958 |
18
August 1975 |
| Benin |
|
|
16
May 1974 |
| Bolivia |
|
|
28
April 1995 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
1/
2/ 6/ |
|
6
March 1992 * |
| Botswana |
1/
2/ |
|
20
December 1971 |
| Bulgaria |
1/
3/ |
17
December 1958 |
10
October 1961 |
| Burkina Faso |
|
|
23
March 1987 |
| Cambodia |
|
|
5
January 1960 |
| Cameroon |
|
|
19
February 1988 |
| Canada |
4/
|
|
12
May 1986 |
| Central African Republic |
1/
2/ |
|
15
October 1962 |
| Chile |
|
|
4
September 1975 |
| China |
1/
2/ |
|
22
January 1987 |
| Colombia |
|
|
25
September 1979 |
| Costa Rica |
|
10
June 1958 |
26
October 1987 |
| Cote
d'Ivoire |
|
|
1
February 1991 |
| State |
* |
Signature |
Ratification
Accession
Succession
(*) |
| Croatia |
1/
2/ 6/ |
|
26
July 1993 * |
| Cuba
|
1/
2/ 3/ |
|
30
December 1974 |
| Cyprus |
1/
2/ |
|
29
December 1980 |
| Czech Republic |
a/
|
|
30
September 1993 * |
| Denmark |
1/
2/ |
|
22
December 1972 |
| Djibouti |
|
|
14
June 1983 |
| Dominica |
|
|
28
October 1988 |
| Ecuador |
1/
2/ 1 |
7
December 1958 |
3
January 1962 |
| Egypt |
|
|
9
March 1959 |
| El
Salvador |
|
|
10
June 1958 |
| Estonia |
|
|
30
August 1993 |
| Finland |
|
29
December 1958 |
19
January 1962 |
| France |
1/
|
25
November 1958 |
26
June 1959 |
| Georgia |
|
|
2 June 1994 |
| Germany |
b/
1/ |
10
June 1958 |
30
June 1961 |
| Ghana |
|
|
9
April 1968 |
| Greece |
1/
2/ |
|
16
July 1962 |
| Guatemala |
1/
2/ |
|
21
March 1984 |
| Guinea |
|
|
23
January 1991 |
| Haiti |
|
|
5
December 1983 |
| Holy
See |
1/
2/ |
|
14
May 1975 |
| Hungary |
1/
2/ |
|
5
March 1962 |
| India |
1/
2/ |
10
June 1958 |
13
July 1960 |
| Indonesia |
1/
2/ |
|
7
October 1981 |
| Ireland |
1/
|
|
12
May 1981 |
| Israel |
|
10
June 1958 |
5
January 1959 |
| Italy |
|
|
31
January 1969 |
| Japan |
1/
|
|
20
June 1961 |
| Jordan |
|
10
June 1958 |
15
November 1979 |
| Kazakstan |
|
|
20
November 1995 |
| Kenya |
1/
|
|
10
February 1989 |
| Kuwait |
1/
|
|
28
April 1978 |
| Latvia |
|
|
14
April 1992 |
| Lesotho |
|
|
13
June 1989 |
| Lithuania |
/3
|
|
15
March 1995 |
| State |
* |
Signature |
Ratification
Accession
Succession
(*) |
| Luxembourg |
1/ |
11
November 1958 |
9
September 1983 |
| Madagascar |
1/
2/ |
|
16
July 1962 |
| Malaysia |
1/
2/ |
|
5
November 1985 |
| Mali |
|
|
8
September 1994 |
| Mexico |
|
|
14
April 1971 |
| Monaco |
1/
2/ |
31
December 1958 |
2
June 1982 |
| Mongolia |
1/
2/ |
|
24
October 1994 |
| Morocco |
1/ |
|
12
February 1959 |
| Netherlands |
1/ |
10
June 1958 |
24
April 1964 |
| New
Zealand |
1/ |
|
6
January 1983 |
| Niger |
|
|
14
October 1964 |
| Nigeria |
1/
2/ |
|
17
March 1970 |
| Norway |
1/
5/ |
|
14
March 1961 |
| Pakistan |
|
|
30
December 1958 |
| Panama |
|
|
10
October 1984 |
| Peru |
|
|
7
July 1988 |
| Philippines |
1/
2/ |
10
June 1958 |
6
July 1967 |
| Poland |
1/
2/ |
10
June 1958 |
3
October 1961 |
| Portugal |
|
|
18
October 1994 |
| Republic of Korea |
1/
2/ |
|
8
February 1973 |
| Romania |
1/
2/ 3/ |
|
13
September 1961 |
| Russian Federation |
c/
1/ 3/ |
29
December 1958 |
24 August 1960 |
| San
Marino |
|
|
17
May 1979 |
| Saudi Arabia |
|
|
19
April 1994 |
| Senegal |
|
|
17
October 1994 |
| Singapore |
1/ |
|
21
August 1986 |
| Slovak Republic |
a/ |
|
28
May 1993 * |
| Slovenia |
1/
2/ 6/ |
|
25
June 1991 * |
| South Africa |
|
|
3
May 1976 |
| Spain |
|
|
12
May 1977 |
| Sri
Lanka |
|
30
December 1958 |
9
April 1962 |
| Sweden |
|
23
December 1958 |
28
January 1972 |
| Switzerland |
1/
8/ |
29
December 1958 |
1
June 1965 |
| Syrian Arab Republic |
|
|
9 March 1959 |
| Thailand |
|
|
21 December 1959 |
| State |
* |
Signature |
Ratification
Accession
Succession
(*) |
| The
former Yugoslav
Republic of
Macedonia |
1/
2/ 6/ |
|
10
March 1994 * |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
1/
2/ |
|
14
February 1966 |
| Tunisia |
1/
2/ |
|
17
July 1967 |
| Turkey |
1/
2/ |
|
2
July 1992 |
| Uganda |
1/ |
|
12
February 1992 |
| Ukraine |
1/
3/ |
29
December 1958 |
10
October 1960 |
| United Kingdom |
1/2 |
|
4
September 1975 |
| United Republic of Tanzania |
1/ |
|
13
October 1964 |
| United States of America |
1/
2/ |
|
30
September 1970 |
| Uruguay |
|
|
30
March 1983 |
| Uzbekistan |
|
|
7
February 1996 |
| Vietnam |
1/
2/ 3/ 9/ |
|
12
September 1995 |
| Yugoslavia 1/ 2/ 6/ |
|
|
26
February 1982 |
| Venezuela |
1/
2// |
|
8
February 1995 |
| Zimbabwe |
|
|
29
September 1994 |
Signatures only: 2; ratifications, accessions and
successions: 108
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The Convention was signed by the former
Czechoslovakia on 3 October 1958 and an instrument of
ratification was deposited on 10 July 1959. 1/ 3/ On 28 May
1993 the Slovak Republic, and on 30 September 1993 the Czech
Republic, deposited instruments of succession.
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The Convention was acceded to by the former
German Democratic Republic on 20 February 1975 with
reservations 1/, 2/ and 3/.
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The Russian Federation continues, as from
24 December 1991, the membership of the former Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the United Nations and
maintains, as from that date, full responsibility for all
the rights and obligations of the USSR under the Charter of
the United Nations and multilateral treaties deposited with
the Secretary-General.
Declarations and reservations
(Excludes territorial declarations and
certain other reservations and declarations of a political
nature)
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State will apply the Convention only to
recognition and enforcement of awards made in the territory
of another Contracting State.
-
State will apply the Convention only to
differences arising out of legal relationships whether
contractual or not which are considered as commercial under
the national law.
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With regard to
awards made in the territory of non-contracting States,
State will apply the Convention only to the extent to which
these States grant reciprocal treatment.
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The Government of
Canada has declared that Canada will apply the Convention
only to differences arising out of legal relationships,
whether contractual or not, which are considered as
commercial under the laws of Canada, except in the case of
the Province of Quebec where the law does not provide for
such limitation.
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State will not
apply the Convention to differences where the subject matter
of the proceedings is immovable property situated in the
State, or a right in or to such property.
-
State will apply
the Convention only to those arbitral awards which were
adopted after the coming of the Convention into
effect.
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The present
Convention should be construed in accordance with the
principles and rules of the National Constitution in force
or with those resulting from reforms mandated by the
Constitution.
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On 23 April 1993,
the Government of Switzerland notified the Secretary-General
its decision to withdraw the declaration it had made upon
ratification.
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Interpretation of
the Convention before the Vietnamese Courts or competent
Authorities should be made in accordance with the
Constitution and law of Vietnam.
Convention on the Recognition and
Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (New York,
1958):
(As of 2 November 1994)
Chronological Table of Ratifications and Accessions
| Ratification
|
Accession |
| Israel, 5
January 1959 |
Morocco, 12
February 1959 |
| France, 26
July 1959 |
Egypt, 9 March
1959 |
| Czechoslovakia, 10 July 1959 |
Syrian Arab
Republic, 9 March 1959 |
| India, 13 July
1960 |
Thailand, 21
December 1959 |
| Russian
Federation **/, 24 August 1960 |
Cambodia, 5
January 1960 |
| Ukraine, 10
October 1960 |
Norway, 14
March 1961 |
| Belarus, 15
November 1960 |
Austria, 2 May
1961 |
| Germany */, 30
June 1961 |
Japan, 20 June
1961 |
| Poland, 3
October 1961 |
Senegal, 17
October 1994 |
| Bulgaria, 10
October 1961 |
Portugal, 18
October 1994 |
| Sri Lanka, 9
April 1962 |
Romania, 13
September 1961 |
| Ecuador, 3
January 1962 |
Hungary, 5
March 1962 |
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