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... 1. Each State Party may, at the time of signature or ratification of the present Protocol or accession thereto, declare that it does not recognize the competence of the Committee provided for in articles 8 and 9. ...


... Each State Party undertakes to make widely known and to give publicity to the Convention and the present Protocol and to facilitate access to information about the views and recommendations of the Committee, in particular, on matters involving that State Party. ...


... 1. The present Protocol shall be open for signature by any State that has signed, ratified or acceded to the Convention. ...
... 2. The present Protocol shall be subject to ratification by any State that has ratified or acceded to the Convention. Instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. ...
... 3. The present Protocol shall be open to accession by any State that has ratified or acceded to the Convention. ...
... 3. The present Protocol shall be open to accession by any State that has ratified or acceded to the Convention. ...
... 4. Accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument of accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. ...
... 4. Accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument of accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. ...


... 1. The present Protocol shall enter into force three months after the date of the deposit with the Secretary-General of the United Nations of the tenth instrument of ratification or accession. ...
... 2. For each State ratifying the present Protocol or acceding to it after its entry into force, the present Protocol shall enter into force three months after the date of the deposit of its own instrument of ratification or accession. ...