Resolutions of the San José Conference

Resolution VII.30 on the status of Yugoslavia in the Ramsar Convention

"People and Wetlands: The Vital Link"
7^th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
to the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971),
San José, Costa Rica, 10-18 May 1999

1. REFERRING to document Ramsar COP7 DOC. 23 on the status of Yugoslavia in the Convention;

2. NOTING that the Contracting Party ‘The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia’ has ceased to exist and has been replaced by five successor states;

3. TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that successor states in general continue to be bound by the treaty obligations of the predecessor state; and

4. ACKNOWLEDGING that three of the successor states to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia are Contracting Parties to Ramsar;

THE CONFERENCE OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES

5. CALLS UPON Bosnia & Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to submit to the Depositary a notification of succession to the Ramsar Convention as the other successor states have done.

For further information about the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, please contact the Ramsar Convention Bureau, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ramsar@ramsar.org). Posted 1 July 1999, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.