Ratification of Treaties (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: RATIFICATION OF TREATIES i METHOD AND PROCEDURE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES GENERAL RATIFICATION OF TREATIES [From Satow's Diplomatic Practice.] TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL COMPACTS: RATIFICA- TION Ratification: 6O6. Ratification, what it is. 607. British form. 608. Russian form. 609. German form. 610. French form. 611. United States form. 612. A form to be used between " Governments." RATIFICATION 606. Ratification is a solemn act on the part of a Sovereign or by the President of a Republic, by which he declares that a treaty, convention, or other international compact has been submitted to him, and that after examining it he has given his approval thereto, and undertakes its complete and faithful observance. The whole text of the treaty, etc., should be reproduced in the instrument, which is signed by him and sealed with the Great Seal, and is countersigned by the minister for Foreign Affairs. This document is exchanged for a similar one given by the other party to the treaty, and the fact of the exchange having been effected is then recorded in a protocol or in a proces-verbal. In some countries the exhibition of special full- powers by the officials who make the exchange is insisted on, but as a general rule this is not held to be necessary, the production of the instruments of ratification by a minister for Foreign Affairs or by an accredited diplomatic representative of the other high contracting party being sufficient evidence that the official who tenders it is duly authorized to proceed to the exchange. In the case of multinational treaties where there are more than two high contracting parties, and each signatory Power has received a counterpart, it exchanges a separate instrument of ratification with each of the other parties. But where only o...