Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict The Hague, 26 March 1999
State Signatories SignatureRatification / Accession 1)Reservation / Declaration 2)
Albania17.05.1999   
Belgium17.05.1999   
Cambodia17.05.1999   
Colombia31.12.1999   
Côte d'Ivoire17.05.1999   
Germany17.05.1999   
Ghana17.05.1999   
Greece17.05.1999   
Holy See17.05.1999   
Honduras   
Indonesia17.05.1999   
Madagascar17.05.1999   
Morocco21.12.1999   
Oman30.06.1999   
Pakistan17.05.1999   
Sweden17.05.1999   
Switzerland17.05.1999   
Syrian Arab Republic17.05.1999   
Yemen17.05.1999   

1) Ratification : a treaty is generally open for signature for a certain time following the conference which has adopted it. However, a signature is not binding on a State unless it has been endorsed by ratification. The time limits having elapsed, the Conventions and the Protocols are no longer open for signature. The States which have not signed them may at any time accede or, in the appropriate circumstances, succeed to them.
Accession : instead of signing and then ratifying a treaty, a State may become party to it by the single act called accession.
2) Reservation / Declaration : unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State when ratifying, acceding or succeeding to a treaty, whereby it purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain provisions of the treaty in their application to that State (provided that such reservations are not incompatible with the object and purpose of the treaty).