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Treaty series

Atreaty seriesis an officially published collection oftreatiesand other international agreements.

League of Nations

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TheLeague of Nations Treaty Series(LNTS) was a result of article 18 of theCovenant of the League of Nations,which stated:

Every treaty or international engagement entered into hereafter by any Member of the League shall be forthwith registered with the Secretariat and shall as soon as possible be published by it. No such treaty or international engagement shall be binding until so registered.

The LNTS began publication in 1920, and was terminated in 1946, following the dissolution of theLeague of Nations.It contains 205 volumes with a total of 4,834 treaties. A nine-volume index has been created.[1]

Following the termination of that series, the registration of League of Nations treaties passed to theUnited Nations.[2]

United Nations

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TheUnited Nations Treaty Series(UNTS)[3]is the result of article 102 of theCharter of the United Nations,which states as follows:

1. Every treaty and every international agreement entered into by any Member of the United Nations after the present Charter comes into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the Secretariat and published by it.
2. No party to any such treaty or international agreement which has not been registered in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article may invoke that treaty or agreement before any organ of the United Nations.

On December 14, 1946, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 97, which laid the rules for the registration of international agreements by the UN Secretariat.[4]

The UNTS is by far the largest collection of treaties, running to over 3,000 volumes containing 158,000 treaties from 1946. Its predecessor was the League of Nations Treaty Series (LNTS).[5]

Council of Europe

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Main article:List of Council of Europe treaties

TheCouncil of EuropeTreaty Series (CETS)was established in 1949.

United States

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Treaties and international agreements were formally published inStatutes at Large(Stat.) until 1948. TheDepartment of Statealso published a number of collections relating specifically to treaties and other agreements:

  • Foreign Relations of the United States(FRUS), published under various names since 1861
  • Treaty Series(TS or USTS), issued singly in pamphlets until 1945
  • Executive Agreement Series(EAS), issued singly in pamphlets until 1945
  • Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776–1949(Bevans), compiled byCharles I. Bevansfor the State Department from 1968-1976

After 1948, agreements have been published asSenate Documents(S.Doc.),House Documents(H.Doc.) or in theFederal Register(F.R. or F.Reg.). Official compilations include:

For convenience, a number of private collections of treaties have also been published:

  • International Legal Materials (ILM) published by The American Society of International Law (ASIL)[6]
  • Treaties and other International Acts of the United States of America(Miller), edited byDavid Hunter Miller

United Kingdom

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United Kingdomtreaties and international agreements are published ascommand papers,along with a large number of other government documents. For ease of reference, command papers relating to treaties are given a second "Treaty Series" number, which is sometimes referred to as the United Kingdom Treaty Series (UKTS). For example, theTreaty on Open Skieswas published as Cm. 5537, but also had the Treaty Series number 26 for 2002, abbreviated as [2002] UKTS 26.

Canada

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Treaties in force for Canada are published in theCanada Treaty Series.[7]

Australia

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See also:List of Australian treaties

Australiantreaties are collected together in theAustralian Treaty Series(ATS), starting with theTreaty of Versailles,[1920] ATS 1.

New Zealand

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New Zealandtreaties are published inNew Zealand Treaty Series(NZTS), starting publication from 1944.

Republic of Ireland

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The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs has published a list of all treaties of Ireland on its website, titledIrish Treaty Series.At present, all treaties from 2002 are available online.[8]

Israel

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The State of Israel has its own official collection of treaties, titled in Hebrew "Kitvey Amana" ( "Treaty Writings" inHebrew,also referred to as "Israel Treaty Series" ). It includes every international agreement either signed or acceded to by the Israeli government.[9][10]

Pacific Islands

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The University of South Pacific in Port Vila,Vanuatubegan a publication titledPacific Islands Treaty Series,giving the texts of treaties concluded by small states in the Pacific Ocean.

References

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  1. ^List of LNTS volumes
  2. ^United Nations General Assembly resolution 24 (I) of 12 February 1946[permanent dead link]League of Nations Assembly resolution of 18 April 1946 (League of Nations,Official Journal,Special Supplement No. 194, p. 57).
  3. ^"United Nations Treaty Collection".treaties.un.org.Retrieved23 September2020.
  4. ^"Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly".Retrieved23 September2020.
  5. ^"United Nations Treaty Collection".treaties.un.org.Retrieved23 September2020.
  6. ^"Asil.org".Archived fromthe originalon 11 December 2007.Retrieved23 September2020.
  7. ^Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade,Policy on Tabling of Treaties in Parliament(Ottawa: 2006-04-06, last modified 2014-03-03), § 9, ¶ (c).
  8. ^"Irish Treaty Series online".Archived fromthe originalon 6 December 2010.Retrieved23 September2020.
  9. ^"Partial list (in Hebrew) of treaties signed by the Israeli government (at the website of the Israeli Ministry of Justice)".Archived fromthe originalon 21 September 2010.Retrieved15 October2010.
  10. ^Search engine for Israeli bilateral treaties (at the website of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
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