Armenia ratified The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances

01.03.2011

On January the 24th Armenia ratified The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances. Armenia became the 23rd state to ratify this document.

Since the 20th state (Iraq) ratified this treaty on the 23rd of November 2010, the convention entered into force on the 23rd of December 2010 as states the convention itself in article 39. In the case of Armenia, the convention entered into force on the 24th of February 2011, also 30 days after the ratification instruments were deposited.