ABSTRACT
ARTICLE 13 This convention shall remain in force indefinitely, but any of the contracting States may denounce it. The denunciation shall be transmitted to the General Secretariat of the Organisation of American States, which shall notify the other contracting States thereof. One year following denunciation, the convention shall cease to be in force for the denouncing State, but shall continue to be in force for the other contracting States. In witness whereof, the undersigned plenipotentiaries, having presented their full powers, which have been found to be in due and proper form, sign this convention on behalf of their respective governments, at the city of Washington this second day of February of the year one thousand nine hundred seventy-one.
