Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III), 8 December 2005
State Signatories SignatureRatification / Accession 1)Reservation / Declaration 2)
Angola14.03.2006   
Argentina13.03.2006   
Belgium08.12.2005   
Bolivia08.12.2005   
Bosnia-Herzegovina14.03.2006   
Burkina Faso07.12.2006   
Burundi08.12.2005   
Cape Verde10.01.2006   
Colombia08.12.2005   
Congo08.12.2005   
Ecuador08.12.2005   
Ethiopia13.03.2006   
Ghana14.06.2006   
Haiti06.12.2006   
Ireland20.06.2006   
Jamaica05.12.2006   
Kenya30.03.2006   
Korea02.08.2006   
Luxembourg08.12.2005   
Madagascar08.12.2005   
Malta08.12.2005   
Nauru27.06.2006   
Nepal14.03.2006   
New Zealand19.06.2006   
Panama19.06.2006   
Peru08.12.2005   
Portugal08.12.2005   
Romania20.06.2006   
Russian Federation07.12.2006   
Serbia (Republic of)31.03.2006   
Sierra Leone20.06.2006   
Spain23.12.2005   
Sweden30.03.2006   
Tanzania (United Rep.of)08.12.2005   
Timor-Leste08.12.2005   
Togo26.06.2006   
Turkey07.12.2006  07.12.2006 (text)
Uruguay13.03.2006   

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).