Mexico today signed 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.

Dr. Francisco Guevas Cancino, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations, signing the Convention as Mr. C.A. Stavropoulos, Under-Secretary, UN Legal Department looks on.

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Mongolia signed the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Dicrimination. 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 Luvsandorjiin Toiv, Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the UN, signing the Convention. Looking on are: Mr. Zagariin Erendoo (left), Third Secretary, Mission of Mongolia to the UN; and Mr. C.A. Stavropoulos, Under-Secretary, the Legal Counsel.

Morocco today became the sixty-second country to sign the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Dicrimination. 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." The Convention provides for the establishment of machinery to oversee the implementation of its provisions.
Ambassador Ahmed Taibi Benhima, Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, signing the Convention. Looking on is Mr. S. Kiernik, Chief of Treaty Section, UN Office of Legal Affairs.

The Netherlands has ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Dicrimination, which came into force on 4 January 1969. The instrument was received today by the United nations Office of Legal Affairs.
Under the Convention, States 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."
Robert Fack, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN, is seen here after he had presented the instrument of ratification with Constantin. A. Stavropoulos, United Nations Legal Counsel.