MAKING PUBLIC THE PROTOCOL RELATING TO AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION

WHEREAS, the Assembly of the International Civil
Aviation Organization convened at Montreal on May 6th, 1947, approved on the
thirteenth day of May of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven, in
accordance with the provisions of Article 94 (a) of the Convention on
International Civil Aviation signed at Chicago on December 7th 1944, an
amendment to said Convention embodied in the present Protocol, which shall be
numbered as “Article 93 bis” of the said Convention;

WHEREAS, the aforesaid Protocol, pursuant to the
final clauses thereof, is subject to ratification by any State which has
ratified or acceded to the said Convention;

WHEREAS, the Philippines is a member of the
International Civil Aviation Organization and a signatory of the Convention on
International Civil Aviation held at Chicago on December 7th, 1954;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Philippines, by its
Resolution No. 81 adopted on May 5,1952, concurred in the ratification by the
President of the Philippines of the said Protocol in accordance with the
Constitution of the Philippines; and

WHEREAS, the Republic of the Philippines has
formally ratified the said Protocol which became effective in respect of the
Philippines on November 17, 1952;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon
Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, have caused the said Protocol, a
certified copy of which is hereto attached, to be made public to the end that
the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled
with good faith by the Republic of the Philippines and the citizens thereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of
February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the ninth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary