WHEREAS, the Convention is designed to secure international cooperation in controlling pests and diseases of plants and plant products and in preventing their introduction and spread across national boundaries;

WHEREAS, Article XII of the Convention provides that it shall be ratified at the earliest possible date and that the instruments, of ratification shall be deposited with the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization ;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Congress of the Philippines, by its Resolution No. 128 adopted on May 19, 1953, did concur in the ratification of the said Convention in accordance with the Constitution of the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the Republic of the Philippines has formally ratified the said Convention and deposited her instrument of ratification on December 3, 1953 with the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, have caused the said Convention, a 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 to be affixed the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.

Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of December, 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