Montevideo Convention

Montevideo Convention
Convention on the Rights and Duties of States
Ratifications and signatories of the treaty
  Parties
  Signatories
SignedDecember 26, 1933
LocationMontevideo, Uruguay
EffectiveDecember 26, 1934
Signatories20[1]
Parties17[1] (as of November 2021)
DepositaryPan American Union
LanguagesEnglish, French, Spanish and Portuguese
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The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States is a treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933, during the Seventh International Conference of American States. The Convention codifies the declarative theory of statehood as accepted as part of customary international law.[2] At the conference, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared the Good Neighbor Policy, which opposed U.S. armed intervention in inter-American affairs. The convention was signed by 19 states. The acceptance of three of the signatories was subject to minor reservations. Those states were Brazil, Peru and the United States.[1]

The convention became operative on December 26, 1934. It was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on January 8, 1936.[3]

The conference is notable in U.S. history, since one of the U.S. representatives was Dr. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, the first U.S. female representative at an international conference.[4]

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  2. ^ Hersch Lauterpacht (2012). Recognition in International Law. Cambridge University Press. p. 419. ISBN 9781107609433.
  3. ^ League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 165, pp. 20-43.
  4. ^ From colony to superpower: U.S. foreign relations since 1776, by George C. Herring, Oxford University Press, 2008, p. 499. Online at Google Books. Retrieved 2011-09-20.

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