VIENNA CONVENTION ON DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS VIENNA CONVENTION ON DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS Done at Vienna, on 18 April 1961 The States Parties to the present Convention, Recalling that peoples of all nations

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. The instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Article 51

1. The present Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day following the date of deposit of the twenty-second instrument of ratification or accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2. For each State ratifying or acceding to the Convention after the deposit of the twenty-second instrument of ratification or accession, the Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after deposit by such State of its instrument of ratification or accession. Article 52 The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall inform all States belonging to any of

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:

1. a)of signatures to the present Convention and of the deposit of instruments of ratification or accession, in accordance with Articles 48, 49 and 50;
2. b)of the date on which the present Convention will enter into force, in accordance with Article 51. Article 53 The original of the present Convention, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall send certified copies thereof to all States belonging to any of

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. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, being duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Convention. DONE at Vienna, this eighteenth day of April one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one.