Convention on the International Right of Correction

A/RES/630(VII)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1953.

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4 subjects

Freedom of Information International News Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties (Text)

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3 operative paragraphs

Urges all Members of the United Nations and the other States which were invited to the United Nations Conference on Freedom of Information 8 to become parties to the Convention on the International Right of Correction, the text of which is annexed hereto and consists of the provisions relating to the right of correction contained in the preamble and articles of the draft Convention on the International Transmission of News and the Right of Correction approved by the General Assembly in resolution 277 C

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of 13 May 1949 with the deletion of articles XVIII, XIX paragraph 2, and XXII paragraph (d), of the latter draft Convention and with the introduction as a new article ( article IX), replacing the former article XVIII, of the following text: "The provisions of the present Convention shall extend to or be applicable equally to a contracting metropolitan State and to all the territories, be they Non-Self-Governing, Trust or Colonial Territories, which are being administered or governed by such metropolitan State.";

Decides that the said Convention shall be opened for signature at the dose of the present session of the General Assembly.

16 December 1952.

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