Ratification by Azerbaijan to the Convention concerning the International Exchange of Publications (Paris, 3 December 1958)
On 7 August 2020, Azerbaijan deposited with the Director-General its instrument of ratification to the Convention concerning the International Exchange of Publications.
The aforementioned instrument contained the following declaration:
“The Republic of Azerbaijan declares that the provisions of the Convention concerning the International Exchange of Publications shall not be applied by the Republic of Azerbaijan in respect of the Republic of Armenia.
The Republic of Azerbaijan declares that it does not guarantee the implementation of the provisions of the Convention concerning the International Exchange of Publications in its territories occupied by the Republic of Armenia (the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan and its seven districts surrounding that region), until the liberation of those territories from the occupation and complete elimination of the consequences of that occupation (the schematic map of the occupied territories of the Republic of Azerbaijan is enclosed*)”
In accordance with the terms of its Article 16, the Convention will enter into force, with respect to Azerbaijan, twelve months after the deposit of this instrument, that is to say on 7 August 2021.
