Contracting States
As of 23 September 2011 there are 40 States which have ratified, or acceded to the Convention:
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Benin, Brazil, Canada, Chad, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Guatemala, Republic of Ireland, Kiribati, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Slovakia, Swaziland, Sweden, Tunisia, United Kingdom, and Uruguay. Dominican Republic, France, and Israel signed but did not ratify the convention.
Compare this with the 145 countries who are members of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
Read more about this topic: 1961 Convention On The Reduction Of Statelessness
Famous quotes containing the words contracting and/or states:
“When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs ... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The one who first states a case seems right, until the other comes and cross-examines.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:17.