Geneva Convention (III) in the United States

ARTICLE 141

The situations provided for in Articles 2 and 3 shall give immediate
effect to ratifications deposited and accessions notified by the Parties
to the conflict before or after the beginning of hostilities or
occupation. The Swiss Federal Council shall communicate by the quickest
method any ratifications or accessions received from Parties to the
conflict.

ARTICLE 142

Each of the High Contracting Parties shall be at liberty to denounce the
present Convention.

The denunciation shall be notified in writing to the Swiss Federal
Council, which shall transmit it to the Governments of all the High
Contracting Parties.

The denunciation shall take effect one year after the notification
thereof has been made to the Swiss Federal Council. However, a
denunciation of which notification has been made at a time when the
denouncing Power is involved in a conflict shall not take effect until
peace has been concluded, and until after operations connected with
release and repatriation of the persons protected by the present
Convention have been terminated.

The denunciation shall have effect only in respect of the denouncing
Power. It shall in no way impair the obligations which the Parties to the
conflict shall remain bound to fulfil by virtue of the principles of the
law of nations, as they result from the usages established among
civilized peoples, from the laws of humanity and the dictates of the
public conscience.

ARTICLE 143

The Swiss Federal Council shall register the present Convention with the
Secretariat of the United Nations. The Swiss Federal Council shall also
inform the Secretariat of the United Nations of all ratifications,
accessions and denunciations received by it with respect to the present
Convention.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, having deposited their respective
full powers, have signed the present Convention.

DONE at Geneva this twelfth day of August 1949, in the English and French
languages. The original shall be deposited in the Archives of the Swiss
Confederation. The Swiss Federal Council shall transmit certified copies
thereof to each of the signatory and acceding States.