ARTICLE 27

1. This Convention shall be open, until 31 December 1949, for signature by all States Members of the United Nations and by every State invited to attend the United Nations Conference on Road and Motor Transport held at Geneva in 1949.

2. This Convention shall be ratified and the instruments of ratification deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

3. From I January 1950, this Convention shall be open for accession by those of the States referred to in paragraph 1 of this article which have not signed this Convention and by any other State which the Economic and Social Council may by resolution declare to be eligible. It shall also be open for accession on behalf of any Trust Territory of which the United Nations is the Administering Authority.

4. Accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument of accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

 Article 28

1. Any State may, at the time of signa-ture, ratification or accession, or at any lime thereafter, declare, by notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, that the provisions of this Convention will be applicable to all or any of the territories for the international relations of which it is responsible. These provisions shall become applicable in the territories named in the notification thirty days after the date of receipt of such notification by the Secretary-General or, if the Convention has  not entered into force at that time, then upon the date of its entry into force.

2. Each Contracting State, when circumstances permit, undertakes to take as soon as possible the necessary steps in order to extend the application of this Convention to the territories for the international relations of which it is responsible, subject, where necessary for constitutional reasons, to the consent of the government of such territories.

3. Any State which has made a declaration under paragraph 1 of this article applying this Convention to any territory for the international relations of which it is responsible may at any time thereafter declare by notification given to the Secretary-General that the Convention shall cease to apply to any territory named in the notification and the Convention shall, after the expiration of one year from the date of the notification, cease to apply to such territory.

Article 29

This Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day after the date of the deposit of the fifth instrument of ratification or accession. This Convention shall enter into force for each State ratifying or acceding after that date on the thirtieth day after the deposit of its instrument of ratification or accession.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify each of the signatory or acceding States and every other State invited to attend the United Nations Conference on Road and Motor Transport of the date on which this Convention enters into force.

Article 30

This Convention shall terminate and replace, in relations between the Contrading States, the International Convention relative to Motor Traffic and the International Convention relative to Road Traffic signed at Paris on 24 April 1926, and the Convention on the Regulation of Inter-American Automotive Traffic opened for signature at Washington on 15 December 1943.

Article 31

1. Any amendment to this Convention may be proposed by any Contracting State. The text of such proposed amendment shall be communicated to the Secretary-General of the United Nations who shall transmit it to each Contracting State with a request that such State reply within four months stating whether it:
(a)    Desires that a conference be convened to consider the proposed amendment; or
(5)    Favours the acceptance of the pro¬posed amendment without a conference; or   
(c) Favours the rejection of the proposed amendment without a conference.
The proposed amendment shall also be transmitted by the Secretary-General to all States, other than Contracting States, invited to attend the United Nations Conference on Road and Motor Transport.

2. The Secretary-General shall convene a conference of the Contracting States to consider the proposed amendment, if the convening of a conference is requested:
(a)    By at least one-quarter of the Contracting States in the case of a pro* posed amendment to any part of the Convention other than the annexes;
(b)    By at least one-third of the Con¬tracting States in the case of a pro* posed amendment to an annex other than annexes 1 and 2;
(c)    In the case of annexes 1 and 2 by at least one-third of the States bound by the annex to which an amendment has been proposed.
The Secretary-General shall invite to the Conference such States, other than Contracting States, invited to attend the United Nations Conference on Road and Motor Transport or whose participation would, in the opinion of the Economic and Social Council, be desirable.
The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply in cases where an amendment to the Convention has been adopted in accordance with paragraph 5 of this article.

3.  Any amendment to this Convention which shall be adopted by a two-thirds majority vote of a conference shall be communicated to all Contracting States for acceptance. Ninety days after its acceptance by two-thirds of the Contracting States each amendment to the Convention, except for those to annexes 1 and 2, shall enter into force for all the Contracting States except those which, before it enters into force, make a declaration that they do not adopt the amendment.

For the entry into force of any amendment to annexes 1 and 2 the majority shall be two-thirds of the States bound by the amended annex.

4. The Conference may by a two-thirds majority vote determine at the time of die adoption of an amendment to this Convention, except for those to annexes and 2, that the amendment is of such a nature that any Contracting State which has made a. declaration that it does not accept the amendment and which then does not accept the amendment within a period of twelve months after the amend¬ment enters into force shall, upon the expiration of this period, cease to be a party to the Convention.

5. In the event of a two-thirds majority of the Contracting States informing the Secretary-General pursuant to paragraph 1 {b) of this article that they favour the acceptance of the amendment without a conference, notification of their decision shall be communicated by the Secretary-General to all the Contracting States. The amendment shall upon the expiration of ninety days from the date of such notification become effective as regards all the Contracting States except those States which notify the Secretary- General that they object to such an amendment within that period.

6. As regards amendments to annexes 1and 2, and any amendment not within the scope of paragraph 4 of this article, the existing provisions shall remain in force in respect of any Contracting State which has made a declaration or lodged an objection with respect to such an amendment.

7. A Contracting State which has made a declaration in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of this article, or has lodged an objection in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 5 of this article to an amendment, may with draw such declaration or objection at any time by notification addressed to the Secretary-General. The amendment shall be effective as regards that State upon receipt of such notification by the Secretary-General.

Article 32

This Convention may be denounced by means of one year’s notice given to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall notify each signatory or acced¬ing State thereof. After the expiration of this period the Convention shall cease to be in force as regards the Contracting State which denounces it.

Article 33

Any dispute between any two or more Contracting States concerning the interpretation or application of this Convention, which the Parties are unable to settle by negotiation or by another mode of settlement, may be referred by written application from any of the Contracting States concerned to the International Court of Justice for decision.

Article 34

Nothing in this Convention shall be deemed to prevent a Contracting State from taking action compatible with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and limited to the exigencies of the situation which it considers necessary for its external or internal security.

Article 35

1. The Secretary-General shall, in addition to the notifications provided for in article 29, paragraphs 1, 3 and 5 o! article 31 and article 32, notify the States referred to in paragraph 1 of article 27 of the following:
(a) Declarations by Contracting States that they exclude annex 1, annex 2, or both of them, from the application of the Convention in accordance with paragraph 1 of article 2;
(b) Declarations by Contracting States that they shall be bound by annex 1, annex 2, or both of them, in accordance with paragraph 2 of article 2;
(c) Signatures, ratifications and accessions in accordance with article 27 ;
(d) Notifications with regard to the territorial application of the Convention in accordance with article 28;
(e) Declarations whereby States accept amendments to the Convention in accordance with paragraph 3 of article 31;
(f) Objections to amendments to the Convention communicated by States to the Secretary-General in accordance with paragraph 5 of article 31 ;
(g) The date of entry into force of amendments to the Convention in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 5 of article 31;
(h) The date on which a State has ceased to be a Party to the Convention, in accordance with paragraph 4 of article 31;
(i) Withdrawals of objections to an amendment in accordance with paragraph 7 of article 31 ;
(j) The list of States bound by any amendment to the Convention;
(k)Denunciations of the Convention in accordance with article 32;
(l) Declarations that the Convention has ceased to apply to a territory in accordance with paragraph 3 of article 28;
(m)Notifications with respect to distinctive letters made by States in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of annex 4.
2. The original of this Convention shall be deposited with the Secretary-General who will transmit certified copies thereof to the States referred to in paragraph 1 of article 27.
3. The Secretary-General is authorized to register this Convention upon its entry into force.