[ PROCLAMATION NO. 233, December 19, 1955 ]
MAKING PUBLIC THE CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS OF WAR, 1929
WHEREAS, a Convention relative to the treatment of Prisoners of War was signed at Geneva on July 27,1929, by the respective plenipotentiaries of forty-seven countries;
WHEREAS, Article 98 of the Convention provides that it shall be open for adherences given on behalf of any country in whose name it was not signed;
WHEREAS, the Senate of the Congress of the Philippines, by its Resolution No. 26 adopted on February 18, 1947, concurred in the adhesion thereto of the Republic of the Philippines;
WHEREAS, the Republic of the Philippines has formally adhered to the said Convention which became effective in respect of the Philippines on October 1, 1947;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim and make public the said Convention, a copy of which is hereto attached, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be 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 td be affixed the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.
Done in the City of Manila, this 19th 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