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[ PROCLAMATION NO. 201, September 23, 1955 ]

MAKING PUBLIC THE ADHERENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES TO THE CONVENTION FOR THE UNIFICATION OF CERTAIN RULES RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION BY AIR AND THE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL THERETO, 1929

WHEREAS, a Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Transportation by Air and an Additional Protocol thereto relating to Article 2 of the Convention were signed at Warsaw by the plenipotentiaries of thirty-two countries;

WHEREAS, Article 38 of the aforesaid Convention provides that a Government on behalf of which this Convention has not been signed, shall be allowed to adhere thereto at any time after the Convention has come into force, by means of a notification addressed to the Government of the Republic of Poland;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Congress of the Philippines, by its Resolution No. 19 adopted on May 16, 1950, concurred in the adherence by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines to the said Convention and the said Protocol in accordance with the Constitution of the Philippines, subject to the reservation, as provided in the Additional Protocol, that the first paragraph of Article 2 of the Convention shall not apply to international transportation that may be performed by the Republic of the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the Government of the Republic of the Philippines has formally adhered to the said Convention its Additional Protocol, and the Government of the Republic of Poland was notified of said adherence on November 9, 1950, when the instrument of adherence was registered in accordance with Article 38 (2) of said Convention; and,

WHEREAS, the adherence of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, pursuant to Article 38 (3) of said Convention, took effect as from the ninetieth day after November 9, 1950.

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, in pursuance of the aforesaid concurrence of the Senate of the Congress of the Philippines and subject to the reservation as provided, in the Additional Protocol that the first paragraph of Article 2 of the Convention shall not apply to international transportation that may be performed by the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim and make public the said Convention and said Protocol, a copy of which is hereto attached, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the Republic of the Philippines and the citizens thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.

Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary