HL Deb 14 October 1982 vol 434 cc1020-1WA
Lord Brockway

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they have ratified the International Convention on the Use of Broadcasting in the Interests of Peace prohibiting broadcasting detrimental to international accord; and which nations have so far ratified it.

Lord Belstead

The United Kingdom ratified the International Convention Concerning the Use of Broadcasting in the Cause of Peace on 18th August 1937. Instruments of ratification or definitive accession were deposited with the League of Nations Secretariat by Australia (1937), Brazil (1938), Chile (1940), Denmark (1937), Egypt (1938), Estonia (1938), Finland (1938), France (1938), Guatemala (1938), India (1937), Ireland (1938), Latvia (1939), Luxembourg (1938), The Netherlands (1939), New Zealand (1938), Norway (1938), Salvador (1938), South Africa (1938), Sweden (1938), and Switzerland (1938); instruments of ratification or accession or notification of succession were deposited with the United Nations Secretariat by Bulgaria (1972), Cameroon (1967), Holy See (1967), Laos (1966), Malta (1966), and Mauritius (1969). According to a TASS report of 21st September 1982, the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR has approved the ratification of the Convention.