The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: The 1977 Protocol on amendments to the Convention on international civil aviation article 1. 1977 30 September in Montreal signed the Protocol on amendments to the Convention on international civil aviation (hereinafter referred to as the Protocol) with this law is adopted and approved. 2. article. The law shall enter into force on the date of its promulgation. With the law put the Protocol in English, and its translation into Latvian language. 3. article. Protocol shall enter into force for the period specified in article 3 and in order, and on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs notified the newspaper "journal". The Parliament adopted the law of 28 January. The President g. Ulmanis in Riga in 1999 on February 11, relating to an amendment Protocol to the Convention of International Civil Aviation Signed at Montreal on 30 September 1977 the ASSEMBLY OF the INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION HAVING met in its Twenty-second Session at Montreal on 30 September 1977, HAVING NOTED Resolution A1-13 on the authentic Russian text of the Convention on International Civil Aviation , HAVING NOTED that it is the general desire of Contracting States to make a provision that the Convention aforesaid exist in authentic Russian text, HAVING CONSIDERED it did not amend it, cessary for the purpose aforesaid, the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the seventh day of December 1944, 1. APPROVE, in accordanc with the provision of article 94 (a) of the Convention aforesaid , the following proposed amendment to the said Convention: replace the present text of the final paragraph of the Convention by: "done at Chicago the seventh day of December 1944 in the English language. The texts of this Convention drawn up in the English, French, Russian and Spanish languages of equal authenticity with. These texts shall be deposit in the archives of the Government of the United States of America, and shall be transmitted to the cop by the certified that Government to the Governments of all the States which may sign or adher to this Convention. This Convention shall be open for signature at Washington, D.C., "2. SPECIFIED, pursuan to the provision of the said article 94 (a) of the said Convention, ninety-four as the number of Contracting States upon whose ratification the proposed amendment aforesaid shall come into force, and the RESOLVE that 3 the Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization draw up a Protocol , in the English, French, Russian and Spanish languages each of which shall be of equal authenticity embodying the proposed amendment above-mentioned and the matter hereinafter appearing. CONSEQUENTLY, pursuan to the aforesaid action of the Assembly, this Protocol has been drawn up by the Secretary General of the Organization. The Protocol shall be opened to ratification by any State which has ratified or adhered to the said Convention on International Civil Aviation. The instruments of ratification shall be deposit with the international Civil Aviation Organization. The Protocol shall come into force in respect of the States which have ratified it on the date on which the fourth instrument of ratification ninety-is so deposited. The Secretary General shall immediately notify all Contracting States of the date of deposit of each ratification of the Protocol. The Secretary General shall immediately notify all States parties to the said Convention of the date on which the Protocol comes into force. With respect to any Contracting State ratifying the Protocol after the date aforesaid, the Protocol shall come into force upon deposit of its instrument of ratification with the International Civil Aviation Organization. In WITNESS WHEREOF, the President and the Secretary General of the aforesaid Twenty-second Session of the Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization, being authorized by the Assembly, theret sign this Protocol. Done at Montreal on the thirtieth day of September of the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven, in a single document in the English, French, Russian, and Spanish languages, each of which shall be of equal authenticity. This Protocol shall remain deposited in the archives of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and certified thereof shall be transmitted by the cop to the Secretary General of the Organization to all States parties to the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago on the seventh day of December 1944.

K.O. Rattray y. Lambert President of the 22nd Session of the Assembly Secretary General Protocol on amendments to the Convention on international civil aviation signed at Montreal on 30 September 1977 at the international CIVIL Aviation Organization Assembly meeting at its twenty-second session in Montreal in 1977, 30 September taking into account resolutions A1-13 genuine Convention on international civil aviation in the Russian text, taking into account the common desire of the Contracting States to recognize their that the text of the Convention in the Russian language is authentic, believes that for these reasons, it is necessary to make amendment to the Convention on international civil aviation, which was signed in Chicago on 7 December 1944, 1. in accordance with article 94 of the Convention referred to "a" item rules approved the following proposed amendments to the Convention: replace the end article of the Convention, the present text with the following: "1944 signed on December 7 in Chicago in English. The text of this Convention in the English, French, Russian and Spanish languages being equally authentic. These texts shall be deposited in the United States Government archives, and the Government sends the certified copies of all the Governments that this Convention can sign or join it. This Convention shall be open for signature in Washington, d. c., 2. "States that in accordance with article 94 of the Convention referred to" a "item on the above proposed amendment shall enter into force after being ratified by ninety-four Contracting States. 3. Decides that the international civil aviation Organization Secretary General draws up the Protocol in English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, the texts being equally authentic, and include the aforementioned proposed amendments and the provisions set out below. As a result, according to the Assembly's activities, the protocol prepared by the Secretary-General. The Protocol is open to ratification in each country which has ratified the said Convention on international civil aviation or acceded to it. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the international civil aviation organization. Countries that have ratified the Protocol, it shall enter into force on the date when storage filed the fourth ratification instrument ninety. The Secretary General shall immediately notify all Contracting States for each of the date on which the instrument of ratification of the Protocol deposited. The Secretary General shall immediately notify all States parties to the said Convention, on the date on which the Protocol entered into force. Contracting State which ratified the Protocol by that date, the Protocol entered into force after the date of deposit of its instrument of ratification of the instrument deposited by the international civil aviation organisation. In witness whereof, the international civil aviation organization Assembly twenty-second session above the President and the Secretary-General, mandated by the Assembly, sign this Protocol. Signed in Montreal, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-seventh year on the 30th September in the form of a single document in English, French, Russian and Spanish languages, each text being equally authentic. This Protocol shall be deposited with the international civil aviation organization's archives and its approved copy sent by the Secretary-General to all the Convention on international civil aviation, signed in Chicago on 7 December 1944, in the Contracting States.

Rettrej K.O. (K.O. Rattray), i. Lambert (y. Lambert), Assembly President of the 22 session by the Secretary-General