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WITHDRAWAL OF RESERVATION on 15 December 2008

(Translation) (Original: French)
WHEREAS the Republic of Rwanda acceded to this Convention on 16 April 1975, but entered a reservation to article 9;

I, Rosemary MUSEMINALI, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, hereby declare that the Government of the Republic of Rwanda, after having examined Rwanda’s reservation to article 9 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide adopted at New York on 9 December 1948, and, in accordance with Act No. 65/2007 of 31 December 2007 which provides for the withdrawal of the said reservation, has withdrawn the reservation.
26.04.1975

26.04.1975