TREATY OF PEACE WITH JAPAN

Signed at San Francisco September 8, 1951

[Date of entry into force: Apr11 28, 1952 at 8:30 a.m. EST]*

Time and date of deposit

of instrument

State

of ratification

Japan

United Kingdom of

Great Britain and

Northern Ireland

Mexico

Argentina

Australia

New Zealand

Canada

Pakistan

France

United States of America

Ceylon

El Salvador

Brazil

Cambodia

Dominican Republic

Ethiopia

Peru

Nether lands

Viet-Nam

Norway

Venezuela

Laos

Turkey

Cuba

Belgium

Union of South Africa

Costa Rica

Nicaragua

Uruguay

Liberia

Syria

Egypt

Paraguay

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November 28, 1951

January 3, 1952

March 3, 1952

April 9, 1952

April 1O, 1952

April 10,

1952

Apr1l 17,

1952

April 17,

April 18

1952 1952

Apr11 28, 1952 (1)

Apr11 28,

1952

May 6, 1952

(2)

May 20, 1952

June 2,

1952

June , 1952

June 12,

June

1952

17, 1952

June 17, 1952

June

18, 1952

June

19, 1952

June

20, 1952

June

20, 1952

July 24, 1952

August 12,

1952

August 22,

1952

September

10, 1952

September 17, 1952

November 4, 1952

December 2, 1952

December 29, 1952

December 29, 1952

December 30,

1952

January 15, 1953

For footnotes, see post, p.. 2..
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TREATY OF PEACE WITH JAPAN

* The Treaty of Peace with Japan, in accordance with the provisions ot Article 23(a) thereor, entered into force on April 28, 1952 at 8:30 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, between the Governments of

Argentina, Australia, canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,

United States of America, and Japan.

The Treaty entered into force

with respect to the States subsequently depositing instruments of ratification on the date and at the time of deposit of their respective instruments of ratification.

(1) The instrument of ratification by the Government of the United

States of America contained the following declaration:

"As part of such advice and consent the Senate states that nothing the treaty contains is deemed to diminish or prejudice, in favor of the Soviet Union, the right, title, and interest of Japan, or the

Allied Powers as

defined in said treaty,

in and to

South Sakhalin and its adjacent islands,

the Kurile

Islands,

Te and other territory, and or aerts postered by Japan on December 7, 1941, or to confer any right, title, or benefit therein or

thereto on the Soviet

Union;

and also that nothing in the said treaty, or the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratir1- cation thereof, implies recognition on the part of the United States of the provisions in favor of the

Soviet Union contained in the so-called "Yalta agree- ment' regarding Japan of February 11, 1945."

(2)

The instrument of ratification by the Government of El

Salvador contained the following declarations:

"I) El Salvador no acepta ni ratifica los compromisos

que otros Estados puedan haber contraido con respecto a la transferencia o final disposieión de los territorios enumerados en el articulo

Segundo del Tratado de Paz con el Japón, en todos aquellos casos en que no se haya consultado y acatado la voluntad libremente expresada por las poblaciones afectadas.

Esta reserva se aplica a la transferencia de las Islas Kuriles, de una parte de la Isla

Sa jaline (Sakhalin) y a cualquier otro caso analogo, ineluyendo ademas todo compromiso sobre la Isla de Formosa; y

"II) No podrá tener efecto alguno en El Salvador,

a que son contrarias a su Constitución Politica, las disposiciones del Articulo XIV del Tratado de Paz con el Japón que autorizan la confiscación de bienes de personas naturales o jurídicas japonesas."

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