Panama 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.

Signing the Convention is Ambassador Aquilino Boyd, Permanent Representative of Panama to the UN. Looking on are: Prof. Didimo Rios, (left) Deputy Permanent Representative of Panama to the UN and Mr. Constantin Stavropoulos, Under-Secretary, UN Legal Department.

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.

The Federal Republic of Germany became the fifty-second State signatory of 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.

Willy Brandt, Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, signing the Convention in a brief ceremony in the Office of Legal Affairs. Looking on, are from left: Egon Bahr (Federal Republic of Germany), Special Envoy; C.A. Stavropoulos, UN Legal Counsel; Marc Schreiber, Director of the UN Division of Human Rights; Sigismund von Braun, Permanent Observer of the Federal Republic of Germany to the UN; and Prof. Fritz Caspari, Deputy Permanent Observer to the UN.

Dahomey today became the fifty-first signatory of the International Convention of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Under the Convention, adopted by the General Assembly on 21 December 1965 , 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 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 Louis Ignacio-Pinto, Permanent Representative of Dahomey to the UN, signing the Convention. Looking on is Mr. C.A. Stavropoulos, Under-Secretary, UN Legal Counsel.

Uruguay today became the fifty-third signatory of the International Convention of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Uruguay also became the ninth State to sign the International Convenants on Human Rights and the seventh signatory of the Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Ambassador Pedro P. Berro, Permanent Representative of Uruguay, signing the instruments in a brief ceremony in the Office of Legal Affairs. Looking on is Mr. C.A. Stavropoulos, UN Under-Secretary, the Legal Counsel.