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[ PROCLAMATION NO. 220, December 02, 1955 ]
MAKING PUBLIC THE TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND PAKISTAN
WHEREAS, a Treaty of Friendship between the Republic of the Philippines and Pakistan, designed to strengthen and perpetuate the friendly relations so happily existing between them in a manner befitting their spiritual, cultural, and economic ties, was concluded and signed at Washington, D. C., on the 3rd day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty-one by the respective plenipotentiaries of the two Governments;
WHEREAS, the Senate of the Congress of the Philippines, by its resolution No. 95, adopted on May 22, 1952, concurred in the making of the said Treaty of Friendship in accordance with the Constitution of the Philippines;
WHEREAS, the instruments of ratification of the two Governments were exchange at Washington, D. C., on September 25, 1953;
WHEREAS, it is stipulated in the said Treaty that it shall enter into force upon the exchange of the instruments of ratification;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, have caused the said Treaty, a certified copy of which is hereto attached, to be made public 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 the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.
Done at Manila, this 2nd day of December, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine 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