Article 28
Duration of the Convention
The present Convention shall come into operation on the 1st of October 1907, and shall remain in force for an indefinite period; but each contracting party has the right of withdrawing from the Union by means of a notice given one year in advance by its Government to the Government of the Swiss Confederation.
Article 29
Abrogation of previous Conventions; ratification
1. From the date on which the present Convention comes into effect, all the stipulations of the Treaties, Conventions, Agreements, or other Acts previously concluded between the various countries or Administrations, in so far as those stipulations are not in accordance with the terms of the present Convention, are abrogated, without prejudice to the rights reserved by the foregoing Article 21.
2. The present Convention shall be ratified as soon as possible. The acts of ratification shall be exchanged at Rome.
3. In faith of which the plenipotentiaries of the above-named countries have signed the present Convention at Rome on the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand nine hundred and six.
- For Germany and the German protectorates:
Gieseke
Knof - For the United States of America and the island possessions of the United States of America:
N. M. Brooks
Edward Rosewater - For the Argentine Republic:
Alberto Blancas - For Austria:
Stibral
Eberan - For Belgium:
J. Sterpin
L. Wodon
A. Lambin - For Bolivia:
J. de Lemoine - For Bosnia-Herzegovina:
Schleyer
Kowarschik - For Brazil:
Joaquim Carneiro de Miranda e Horta - For Bulgaria:
Iv. Stoyanovitch
T. Tzontcheff - For Chile:
Carlos Larrain Claro
M. Luis Santos Rodriguez - For the Empire of China:
- For the Republic of Colombia:
G. Michelsen - For the Independent State of the Congo:
J. Sterpin
L. Wodon
A. Lambin - For the Empire of Corea:
Kanichiro Matsuki
Takeji Kawamura - For the Republic of Costa Rica:
Rafael Montealegre
Alf. Esquivel - For Crete:
Elio Morpurgo
Carlo Gamond
Pirrone
Giuseppe Greborio
E. Delmati
