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 TREATIES December 11, 1946 IT.I.A.S. 1671] Protocol, with annex, between the United States of America and other governments respecting narcotic drugs, amending the agreements, conventions, and protocols of January 23, 1912, February 11, 1925, February 19, 1925, July 13, 1931, November 27, 1931, and June 26, 1936. Openedfor signature at Lake Success December 11, 1946; ratification advised by the Senate of the United States of America June 24, 1947; ratifiedby the Presidentof the United States of America July 15, 1947; ratification of the United States of America deposited with the United Nations at Lake Success August 12, 1947; protocol proclaimed by the President of the United States of America October 14, 1947; protocol entered into force with respect to the United States of America August 12, 1947. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Protocol, with accompanying Annex, amending the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs was opened for signature at Lake Success, New York, on Decem- ber 11, 1946, and was signed by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America (with a reservation "Subject to approval") and forty-eight other countries; WHEREAS the text of the said Protocol in the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish languages and the accompanying Annex in the English and French languages, as certified by the Acting Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in charge of the Legal Department, are word for word as follows: 2230 [61 STAT.

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