261. Presentation of the Federal Chancellor concerning the scope of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation

According to the communications of the Governments of the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States, the following countries have ratified their instruments of ratification or ratification. Instruments of accession to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (BGBl. No 248/1974, last proclamation of the BGBl area. III No 180/1998):

States:	Date of deposit of the instruments of ratification. Certificate of Accession:
Albania	21 October 1997
Andorra	22 May 2006
Angola	12 March 1998
Armenia	10 September 2002
Azerbaijan	15 March 2000
Belize	10 June 1998
Benin	19 April 2004
Burundi	11 February 1999
Cook Islands	14. April 2005
Dominica	26 July 2005
Kazakhstan	4 April 1995
Kyrgyzstan	25 February 2000
Cuba	31 October 2001
Latvia	13 April 1997
Liechtenstein	23 February 2001
Micronesia	19 March 2003
Mozambique	16 January 2003
Namibia	4 November 2005
Niue	30 September 2009
Samoa	9 July 1998
São Tomé and Príncipe	8 May 2006
St. Kitts and Nevis	10 September 2008
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	29 November 1991
Swaziland	27 December 1999
Turkmenistan	25 May 1999

The following states have declared that they should continue to be bound by the Convention:

States:	with effect from:
Montenegro	3 June 2006
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, now Serbia	27 April 1992

Cuba and Mozambique have declared that they should not be bound by Article 14 (1) of the Convention.

The Andorra instrument of accession contains the following statement: " At the time of Andorra's accession to the Convention and the Protocol, Andorra does not have an airport or airfield in its territory, even though it has helicopter landing sites and several Landing areas for helicopters has, and no registered aircraft. "

China 1 Extended the scope of the Convention to the Special Administrative Region of Macao with effect from 19 September 2002 and, on the occasion of the latter, stated that the conditional reservation on Article 14 (1) also applies to the Macao Special Administrative Region (Macao) Application.

In addition, Poland 2 and the Russian Federation 3 shall withdraw its reservation in accordance with Article 14 (1).

Faymann