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.Chapter XXIRATIFICATION AND ENTRY INTO FORCEArticle 139The present Charter shall remain open for signature by the American States and shall be ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional procedures.The original instrument, the Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French texts of which are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the General Secretariat, which shall transmit certified copies thereof to the Governments for purposes of ratification.The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the General Secretariat, which shall notify the signatory States of such deposit.Article 140The present Charter shall enter into force among the ratifying States when two thirds of the signatory States have deposited their ratifications.It shall enter into force with respect to the remaining States in the order in which they deposit their ratifications.Article 141The present Charter shall be registered with the Secretariat of the United Nations through the General Secretariat.Article 142Amendments to the present Charter may be adopted only at a General Assembly convened for that purpose.Amendments shall enter into force in accordance with the terms and the procedure set forth in Article 140.Article 143The present Charter shall remain in force indefinitely, but may be denounced by any Member State upon written notification to the General Secretariat, which shall communicate to all the others each notice of denunciation received.After two years from the date on which the General Secretariat receives a notice of denunciation, the present Charter shall cease to be in force with respect to the denouncing State, which shall cease to belong to the Organization after it has fulfilled the obligations arising from the present Charter.Chapter XXIITRANSITORY PROVISIONSArticle 144The Inter-American Committee on the Alliance for Progress shall act as the permanent executive committee of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council as long as the Alliance is in operation.Article 145Until the inter-American convention on human rights, referred to in Chapter XV, enters into force, the present InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights shall keep vigilance over the observance of human rights.Article 146The Permanent Council shall not make any recommendation nor shall the General Assembly take any decision with respect to a request for admission on the part of a political entity whose territory became subject, in whole or in part, prior to December 18, 1964, the date set by the First Special Inter-American Conference, to litigation or claim between an extracontinental country and one or more Member States of the Organization, until the dispute has been ended by some peaceful procedure.This article shall remain in effect until December 10, 1990.*Signed in Bogotá in 1948 and amended by the Protocol of Buenos Aires in 1967, by the Protocol of Cartagena de Indias in 1985, by the Protocol of Washington in 1992, and by the Protocol of Managua in 1993 [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]