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 36 SECOND SCHEDULE—continued 2. For each State ratifying or acceding to this Convention after the deposit of the third instrument of ratification or accession, this Convention shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after deposit by such State of its instrument of ratification or accession.

1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention by a written notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Denunciation shall take effect one year after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General.

2. Any State which has made a declaration or notification under Article X may, at any time thereafter, by notification to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, declare that this Convention shall cease to extend to the territory concerned one year after the date of the receipt of the notification by the Secretary-General.

3. This Convention shall continue to be applicable to arbitral awards in respect of which recognition or enforcement proceedings have been instituted before the denunciation takes effect.

A Contracting State shall not be entitled to avail itself of the present Convention against other Contracting States except to the extent that it is itself bound to apply the Convention.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify the States contemplated in Article VIII of the following:
 * (a) signatures and ratifications in accordance with Article VIII;
 * (b) accessions in accordance with Article IX;
 * (c) declarations and notifications under Articles I, X and XI;
 * (d) the date upon which this Convention enters into force in accordance with Article XII;
 * (e) denunciations and notifications in accordance with Article XIII.