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ARTICLE-4     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article 3 shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals. ...


ARTICLE-5     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The Contracting Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their respective Constitutions, the necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present Convention, and, in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article 3. ...


ARTICLE-6     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article 3 shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction. ...


ARTICLE-7     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Genocide and the other acts enumerated in article 3 shall not be considered as political crimes for the purpose of extradition. ...


ARTICLE-8     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Any Contracting Party may call upon the competent organs of the United Nations to take such action under the Charter of the United Nations as they consider appropriate for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article 3. ...


ARTICLE-9     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation, application or fulfilment of the present Convention, including those relating to the responsibility of a State for genocide or for any of the other acts enumerated in article 3, shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute. ...


ARTICLE-13     [go to this ARTICLE]
... On the day when the first twenty instruments of ratification or accession have been deposited, the Secretary-General shall draw up a proces-verbal and transmit a copy thereof to each Member of the United Nations and to each of the non-member States contemplated in article 11. ...


ARTICLE-17     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify all Members of the United Nations and the non-member States contemplated in article 11 of the following: ...
... (a) Signatures, ratifications and accessions received in accordance with article 11; ...
... (b) Notifications received in accordance with article 12; ...
... (c) The date upon which the present Convention comes into force in accordance with article 13; ...
... (d) Denunciations received in accordance with article 14; ...
... (e) The abrogation of the Convention in accordance with article 15; ...
... (f) Notifications received in accordance with article 16. ...


ARTICLE-18     [go to this ARTICLE]
... A certified copy of the Convention shall be transmitted to each Member of the United Nations and to each of the non-member States contemplated in article 11. ...