Signatories and Ratifications
The Convention attracted 57 signatures when opened for signature in Paris . Controversially, the United States refused to sign, saying that "did not meet our expectations" . A number of European countries also refused to become parties. These included the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands . The initial signatories were France, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Congo, Croatia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Japan, Lithuania, Maldives, Moldavia, Morocco, Uganda, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Macedonia, Chad, Tunisia, Vanuatu, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chile, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Finland, Grenada, Honduras, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Niger, Paraguay, Portugal, Samoa, Sweden, Uruguay, Mali, and Azerbaijan
The Republic of Ireland signed the Convention on 29 March 2007. Armenia signed on 10 April 2007, Ecuador on 24 May 2007 and Italy on 3 July 2007. Colombia, Denmark, Gabon, Germany, Liechtenstein, Norway, Panama, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Swasiland signed the Convention between September and December 2007. The Netherlands signed in 2008, while Indonesia, Lesotho, Togo and Zambia signed in 2010 and Switzerland in 2011. As of January 2011, Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Chile, Ecuador, Gabon, Germany Mexico, Nigeria, Honduras, France, Senegal, Spain, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Uruguay, Mali, Paraguay, Japan and Iraq have ratified the Convention, Iraq being the twentieth.
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