Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural character with Protocol of Signature and model form of certificate provided for in Article IV of the above-mentioned Agreement. Beirut, 10 December 1948.¹

States	Group	Date of deposit of instrument	Type of instrument
Benin	Va	18/05/2017	Accession
Bosnia and Herzegovina	II	12/01/1994	Notification of succession
Brazil	III	15/08/1962	Acceptance
Cambodia	IV	20/02/1952	Accession
Canada	I	04/10/1950	Acceptance
Congo	Va	26/08/1968	Accession
Costa Rica	III	09/06/1971	Accession
Croatia	II	26/07/1993	Notification of succession
Cuba	III	07/02/1977	Accession
Cyprus	I	10/08/1972	Accession
Czechia	II	22/08/1997	Accession
Denmark	I	10/08/1955	Acceptance
El Salvador	III	24/06/1953	Acceptance
Ghana	Va	22/03/1960	Accession
Greece	I	09/07/1954	Acceptance
Haiti	III	14/05/1954	Acceptance
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	IV	30/12/1959	Acceptance
Iraq	Vb	29/08/1952	Accession
Jordan	Vb	07/07/1972	Accession
Lebanon	Vb	12/05/1971	Acceptance
Liberia	Va	16/09/2005	Accession
Libya	Vb	22/01/1973	Accession
Madagascar	Va	23/05/1962	Accession
Malawi	Va	05/07/1967	Accession
Malta	I	29/07/1968	Accession
Montenegro	II	23/10/2006	Notification of succession
Morocco	Vb	25/07/1968	Accession
Niger	Va	22/04/1968	Accession
North Macedonia	II	02/09/1997	Notification of succession
Norway	I	12/01/1950	Acceptance
Pakistan	IV	16/02/1950	Accession
Philippines	IV	13/11/1952	Acceptance
Serbia	II	12/03/2001	Notification of succession
Slovakia	II	09/06/1997	Notification of succession
Slovenia	II	03/11/1992	Notification of succession
Syrian Arab Republic	Vb	16/09/1951	Accession
Trinidad and Tobago	III	31/08/1965	Accession
United States of America	I	14/10/1966	Acceptance
Uruguay	III	20/04/1999	Acceptance

¹The United Nations is the depositary for this instrument. This Agreement entered into force on 12 August 1954. It subsequently entered into force for each State 90 days after the date of the deposit of that State’s instrument, except in cases of notifications of succession, where the entry into force occurred on the date on which the State assumed responsibility for conducting its international relations.

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Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural character with Protocol of Signature and model form of certificate provided for in Article IV of the above-mentioned Agreement. Beirut, 10 December 1948.1

Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific and Cultural character with Protocol of Signature and model form of certificate provided for in Article IV of the above-mentioned Agreement. Beirut, 10 December 1948.¹