HC Deb 25 January 1978 vol 942 cc672-6W
Mr. Stanbrook

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list in the Official Report those States which have ratified the Tokyo, Hague, and Montreal Conventions, respectively; and if he will state the Government's plans for achieving universality in the adoption of legal and practical methods of combating air terrorism.

Mr. Judd

The information is set out below.

The following States have ratified or acceded to the Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation:

  • United Kingdom
  • Soviet Union
  • United States
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Barbados
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Byelorussia
  • Cameroon
  • Canada
  • Cape Verde Islands
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • China (Nat.)
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Cyprus
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Egypt Arab Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gabon
  • German D.R.
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Iran
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Ireland, Republic of
  • Italy
  • Ivory Coast
  • Israel
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Korea, Republic of
  • Lebanon
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mexico
  • Mongolia
  • Morocco
  • Oman
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • Oman see Muscat and Oman
  • 674
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Ukraine
  • Uruguay
  • Yugoslavia
  • Turkey

The following States have ratified or acceded to The Hague Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft 1970:

  • United Kingdom
  • Soviet Union
  • United States
  • Afganistan
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Byelorussia
  • Cambodia
  • Canada
  • Cape Verde Islands
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • China Republic
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • Cyprus
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Dahomey
  • Denmark
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gabonese Republic
  • German D.R.
  • Germany F.R.
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Indonesia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Ireland Republic of
  • Italy
  • Ivory Coast
  • Japan
  • Jordan
  • 675
  • Kenya
  • Korea Republic of
  • Lebanon
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • Mexico
  • Mongolia
  • Morocco
  • Muscat and Oman
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • Oman see Muscat and Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Philippines
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Remania
  • Saudia Arabia
  • Sierra Leone
  • South Africa
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Turkey
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • Uruguay
  • Vietnam
  • Zaire
  • Yugoslavia

The following States have ratified or acceded to the Tokyo Convention on Offences and Certain other Acts committed on board Aircraft 1963:

  • United Kingdom
  • Barbados
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • China (Taiwan)
  • Colombia
  • Denmark
  • Ecuador
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany F.R.
  • Greece
  • Guatemala
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Malagasy Republic
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • Pakistan
  • Panama
  • Philippines
  • Portugal
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • 676
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United States
  • Upper Volta
  • Yugoslavia
  • Ireland, Republic of
  • Indonesia
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Burundi
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • Costa Rica
  • Cyprus
  • Dominican Republic
  • Fiji (Succession)
  • Gabon
  • Ghana
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Iraq
  • Ivory Coast
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Laos
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Libya
  • Luxembourg
  • Malawi
  • Mali
  • New Zealand
  • Nicaragua
  • Paraguay
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Rwanda
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Thailand
  • Togo
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Zambia
  • Turkey
  • Papua New Guinea (S)
  • Egypt
  • Tunisia
  • India
  • Morocco
  • Bahamas (Succession)
  • Afghanistan
  • Iran
  • Oman
  • Uruguay
  • Mauritania
  • Zaire

The Government have for a number of years played a prominent part in the UN, ICAO, and the EEC in promoting measures to achieve universality in the adoption of methods to combat hijacking and other threats to security in civil aviation, and will continue to do so.