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... In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: ...
... The Contracting Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their respective Constitutions, the necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present Convention, and, in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article 3. ...
... Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation, application or fulfilment of the present Convention, including those relating to the responsibility of a State for genocide or for any of the other acts enumerated in article 3, shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute. ...
... The present Convention, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall bear the date of 9 December 1948. ...
... The present Convention shall be open until 31 December 1949 for signature on behalf of any Member of the United Nations and of any nonmember State to which an invitation to sign has been addressed by the General Assembly. ...
... The present Convention shall be ratified, and the instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. ...
... After 1 January 1950, the present Convention may be acceded to on behalf of any Member of the United Nations and of any non-member State which has received an invitation as aforesaid. Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. ...
... Any Contracting Party may at any time, by notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, extend the application of the present Convention to all or any of the territories for the conduct of whose foreign relations that Contracting Party is responsible. ...
... The present Convention shall come into force on the ninetieth day following the date of deposit of the twentieth instrument of ratification or accession. ...
... The present Convention shall remain in effect for a period of ten years as from the date of its coming into force. ...
... If, as a result of denunciations, the number of Parties to the present Convention should become less than sixteen, the Convention shall cease to be in force as from the date on which the last of these denunciations shall become effective.
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... If, as a result of denunciations, the number of Parties to the present Convention should become less than sixteen, the Convention shall cease to be in force as from the date on which the last of these denunciations shall become effective.
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... A request for the revision of the present Convention may be made at any time by any Contracting Party by means of a notification in writing addressed to the Secretary-General. ...
... (c) The date upon which the present Convention comes into force in accordance with article 13; ...
... The original of the present Convention shall be deposited in the archives of the United Nations. ...
... A certified copy of the Convention shall be transmitted to each Member of the United Nations and to each of the non-member States contemplated in article 11. ...
... The present Convention shall be registered by the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the date of its coming into force. ...