ANNEXES
3. States Parties’ Reservations (or Declarations) to the ICERD
Article 2 (1) (d) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969) defines the term of reservation as a
unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State, when signing, ratifying, accepting,
approving or acceding to a treaty, whereby it purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain
provisions of the treaty in their application to that State. The texts of all the reservations (and declarations)
made by States parties to ICERD can be found at:
http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-2&chapter=4&lang=en.
Article 1
UK 1(1)
Article 2
FIJI; MONACO 2(1); SWITZERLAND 2(1)(a); UK; USA 2(1), 2(1)(c), 2(1)(d)
Article 3
FIJI; UK; USA
Article 4
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 4(a), 4(b), 4(c); AUSTRALIA 4(a); AUSTRIA 4(a), 4(b), 4(c); BAHAMAS 4(a),
4(b), 4(c); BARBADOS 4(a), 4(b), 4(c); BELGIUM 4(a), 4(b), 4(c); FIJI 4(a), 4(b), 4(c); FRANCE;
IRELAND 4(a), 4(b), 4(c); ITALY; JAPAN 4(a), 4(b); MALTA 4(a), 4(b), 4(c); MONACO; NEPAL 4(a),
4(b), 4(c); PAPUA NEW GUINEA 4(a), 4(b), 4(c); SWITZERLAND; THAILAND 4(a), 4(b), 4(c); TONGA
4(a), 4(b), 4(c); UK 4(a), 4(b), 4(c); USA
Article 5
FIJI 5(c), 5(d)(v), 5(e)(v); TONGA 5(d)(v); UK 5(c), 5(d)(v), 5(e)(v); USA
Article 6
FIJI; FRANCE; ITALY; MALTA; NEPAL; TONGA; UK
Article 7
USA
Article 15
FIJI; FRANCE; TONGA; UK
Article 17
AFGHANISTAN; BELARUS 17(1); BULGARIA 17(1); HUNGARY 17(1); MONGOLIA 17(1); POLAND
17(1); ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION 17(1); UKRAINE 17(1); VIET NAM 17(1); YEMEN 17(1)
Article 18
AFGHANISTAN; BULGARIA 18(1); HUNGARY 18(1); POLAND 18(1); ROMANIA; VIET NAM 18(1);
YEMEN 18(1)
Article 20
FIJI; TONGA; UK
Article 22
AFGHANISTAN; BAHRAIN; CHINA; CUBA; EGYPT; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; INDIA; INDONESIA; IRAQ;
ISRAEL; KUWAIT; LEBANON; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; MADAGASCAR; MOROCCO; MOZAMBIQUE;
NEPAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; THAILAND; TURKEY; USA; VIET NAM; YEMEN
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