MAKING PUBLIC THE ADHERENCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES TO THE CONVENTION FOR THE UNIFICATION OF CERTAIN RULES RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION BY AIR AND THE ADD…

WHEREAS, a Convention for the Unification of
Certain Rules Relating to International Transportation by Air and an Additional
Protocol thereto relating to Article 2 of the Convention were signed at Warsaw
by the plenipotentiaries of thirty-two countries;

WHEREAS, Article 38 of the aforesaid Convention
provides that a Government on behalf of which this Convention has not been
signed, shall be allowed to adhere thereto at any time after the Convention has
come into force, by means of a notification addressed to the Government of the
Republic of Poland;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Congress of the
Philippines, by its Resolution No. 19 adopted on May 16, 1950, concurred in the
adherence by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines to the said
Convention and the said Protocol in accordance with the Constitution of the
Philippines, subject to the reservation, as provided in the Additional
Protocol, that the first paragraph of Article 2 of the Convention shall not
apply to international transportation that may be performed by the Republic of
the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines has formally adhered to the said Convention its Additional
Protocol, and the Government of the Republic of Poland was notified of said
adherence on November 9, 1950, when the instrument of adherence was registered
in accordance with Article 38 (2) of said Convention; and,

WHEREAS, the adherence of the Government of the
Republic of the Philippines, pursuant to Article 38 (3) of said Convention,
took effect as from the ninetieth day after November 9, 1950.

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon
Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, in pursuance of the aforesaid
concurrence of the Senate of the Congress of the Philippines and subject to the
reservation as provided, in the Additional Protocol that the first paragraph of
Article 2 of the Convention shall not apply to international transportation
that may be performed by the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim
and make public the said Convention and said Protocol, a copy of which is
hereto attached, 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 to be affixed the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.

Done in the City of Manila, this 23rd day of
September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:
MARIANO YENKO, JR.
Assistant Executive Secretary