HC Deb 22 March 1957 vol 567 cc71-2W
Mr. Warbey

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs which States signed the Statute of the International Atomic Energy Authority within the 90 days' period prescribed in Articles IV and XXI of the Statute.

Mr. Ian Harvey

The Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency was signed on 26th October, 1956, by the following seventy countries:—

Albania Israel.
Argentina. Japan.
Australia. Korea.
Austria. Lebanon.
Belgium. Liberia.
Bolivia. Libya.
Brazil. Monaco.
Bulgaria. Netherlands.
Byelorussia. New Zealand.
Cambodia. Norway.
Canada. Pakistan.
Ceylon. Panama.
Chile. Paraguay.
China. Peru.
Colombia. Philippines.
Costa Rica. Poland.
Cuba. Portugal.
Czechoslovakia. Roumania.
Denmark. South Africa.
Dominican Republic. Soviet Union.
Ecuador. Spain.
Egypt. Sudan.
El Salvador. Sweden.
Ethiopia. Switzerland.
France. Syria.
Germany. Thailand.
Greece. Turkey.
Guatemala. Ukraine.
Haiti. United Kingdom.
Honduras. United States.
Hungary. Uruguay.
Iceland. Vatican City.
India. Venezuela.
Indonesia. Vietnam.
Iran. Yugoslavia.

The following ten countries signed on the dates shown within the ninety days' period prescribed by Articles IV and XXI of the Statute:—

  • Italy (November 15).
  • Mexico (December 7).
  • Tunisia (January 8).
  • Burma (January 9).
  • Morocco (January 9).
  • Iraq (January 15).
  • Laos (January 17).
  • Luxembourg (January 18).
  • Nicaragua (January 23).
  • Afghanistan (January 23).