Costa Rica today became the sixth State to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 1965, the Convention binds States which become Parties to "condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue, by all appropriate means and without delay, a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among races." The Parties also commit themselves to taking "special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them". The Convention provides for the establishment of machinery to oversee the implementation of its provisions.

Ambassador Luis Demetrio Tinoco (right), Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the UN, depositing the instrument of ratification with Mr. C.A. Stavropoulos, Under-Secretary and the Legal Counsel. At left is Mr. L. Rafael Tinoco, Counsellor, Mission of Costa Rica to the UN.

Cuba signed the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Dicrimination. The Convention, adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 1965 binds States which become Parties to "condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue, by all appropriate means and without delay, a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among races." The Parties also commit themselves to taking "special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them". The Convention provides for the establishment of machinery to oversee the implementation of its provisions.
Juan Juarbe y Juarbe, Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, signing the Convention. Looking on is Mr. C.A. Stavropoulos, Under-Secretary, the Legal Counsel.

Cyprus has ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Its instruments of ratification was deposited this afternoon with the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs by Zenon Rossides, Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations.
Under the Convention, adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 1965 (resolution 2106 (XX)), States which become parties "condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue, by all appropriate means and without delay, a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among races."
Zenon Rossides, Permanent Representative of Cyprus to UN, depositing the instruments of ratification with S. Kiernik, Chief, Treaty Section, UN Office of Legal Affairs.

Cyprus today signed the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The Convention, adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 1965 (Resolution 2106 (XX)), binds States which become Parties to "condemn racial discrimination and undertake to pursue, by all appropriate means and without delay, a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among races." The Parties also commit themselves to taking "special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them". The Convention provides for the establishment of machinery to oversee the implementation of its provisions.

Ambassador Zenon Rossides, Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the UN, signing the Convention. Looking on is Mr. S. Kiernik, Chief of the UN Treaty section.

Czechoslovakia has become the thirty-fourth signatory to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Milan Khusak, Permanent Representative of Czechoslovakia to the UN, is shown signing the Convention in the office of the UN Legal Counsel, C.A. Stavropoulos (standing centre); Mrs. Gertruda Sekaninova-Cakrtova, a memberof the Czechoslovakian National Assembly, looks on at right.