§ Mr. AmessTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will publish in the Official Report a list of those countries known to his Department to have ratified the United Nations convention on genocide, according to date of ratification.
§ Mr. SainsburyAs at 1 August 1989, 102 countries have ratified acceded or succeeded to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide:
- Ethiopia: 1 July 1949.
- Australia: 8 July 1949.
- Norway: 22 July 1949.
- Iceland: 29 August 1949.
330 - Ecuador: 21 December 1949.
- Panama: 11 January 1950.
- Guatemala: 13 January 1950.
- Israel: 9 March 1950.
- Monaco: 13 March 1950.
- Jordan: 3 April 1950.
- Liberia: 9 June 1950.
- Philippines: 7 July 1950.
- Saudi Arabia: 13 July 1950.
- Bulgaria: 21 July 1950.
- Turkey: 31 July 1950.
- Yugoslavia: 29 August 1950.
- E1 Salvador: 28 September 1950.
- Sri Lanka: 12 October 1950.
- Costa Rica: 14 October 1950.
- Democratic Kampuchea: 14 October 1950.
- France: 14 October 1950.
- Haiti: 14 October 1950.
- Republic of Korea: 14 October 1950.
- Romania: 2 November 1950.
- Poland: 14 November 1950.
- Lao People's Democratic Republic: 8 December 1950.
- Czechoslovakia: 21 December 1950.
- Denmark: 15 June 1951.
- Belgium: 5 September 1951.
- Hungary: 7 January 1952.
- Nicaragua: 29 January 1952.
- Egypt: 8 February 1952.
- Honduras: 5 March 1952.
- Brazil: 15 April 1952.
- Sweden: 27 May 1952.
- Italy: 4 June 1952.
- Mexico: 22 July 1952.
- Canada: 3 September 1952.
- Cuba: 4 March 1953.
- Chile: 3 June 1953.
- Lebanon: 17 December 1953.
- Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic: 11 August 1954.
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: 3 May 1954.
- Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic: 15 November 1954.
- Germany, Federal Republic of: 24 November 1954.
- Greece: 8 December 1954.
- Albania: 12 May 1955.
- Syrian Arab Republic: 25 June 1955.
- Burma: 14 March 1956.
- Afghanistan: 22 March 1956.
- Argentina: 5 June 1956.
- Iran (Islamic Republic of): 14 August 1956.
- Tunisia: 29 November 1956.
- Pakistan: 12 October 1957.
- Morocco: 24 January 1958.
- Austria: 19 March 1958.
- Ghana: 24 December 1958.
- Iraq: 20 January 1959.
- Iceland: 27 August 1959.
- Colombia: 27 October 1959.
- Finland: 18 December 1959.
- Peru: 24 February 1960.
- Venezuela: 12 July 1960.
- Zaire: 31 May 1962.
- Algeria: 31 October 1963.
- Burkina Faso: 14 September 1965.
- Netherlands: 20 June 1966.
- Mongolia: 5 January 1967.
- Uruguay: 11 July 1967.
- Spain: 13 September 1968.
- Jamaica: 23 September 1968.
- Nepal: 17 January 1969.
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: 30 January 1970.
- Tonga: 16 February 1972.
- Fiji: 11 January 1973.
- German Democratic Republic: 27 March 1973.
- Mali: 16 July 1974.
- Lesotho: 29 November 1974.
- Rwanda: 16 April 1975.
- Bahamas: 5 August 1975.
- Ireland: 22 June 1976.
- New Zealand: 28 December 1978.
- Gambia: 29 December 1978.
331 - Barbados: 14 January 1980.
- Vietnam: 9 June 1981.
- Luxembourg: 7 October 1981.
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines: 9 November 1981.
- Papua New Guinea: 27 January 1982.
- Cyprus: 29 March 1982.
- Gabon: 21 January 1983.
- China: 18 April 1983.
- Mozambique: 18 April 1983.
- Senegal: 4 August 1983.
- United Republic of Tanzania: 5 April 1984.
- Maldives: 24 April 1984.
- Togo: 24 May 1984.
- Democratic Yemen: 9 February 1987.
- Antigua and Barbuda: 25 October 1988.
- United States of America: 25 November 1988.
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea: 31 January 1989.
- Yemen: 6 April 1989.
- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya: 16 May 1989.