HL Deb 12 January 2004 vol 657 cc75-6WA
Baroness Byford

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How many and which countries have ratified the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, adopted on 3 November 2001, and how many and which countries have repudiated it. [HL538]

Lord Whitty

The following 33 countries have deposited with the Director-General of the FAO instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture:

  • Algeria
  • Banglaesh
  • Bhutan
  • Cambodia
  • Canada
    • WA 76
  • Central African Republic
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Cyprus
  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • El Salvador
  • Eritrea
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea
  • India
  • Jordan
  • Kenya
  • Kuwait
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Myanmar
  • Nicaragua
  • Pakistan
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Saint
  • Lucia
  • Sierra Leone
  • Sudan
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Uganda

The treaty comes into force 90 days after the deposition of the 40th instrument of ratification. Acceptance, approval or accession and thus the matter of "repudiation" by any given country is not at present an issue.