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DECLARATION (XIV)
PROHIBITING THE DISCHARGE OF
PROJECTILES AND EXPLOSIVES FROM BALLOONS.
Signed at The Hague,
18 October 1907. ¹

            The undersigned, Plenipotentiaries of the Powers invited to the Second International Peace Conference at The Hague, duly authorized to that effect by their Governments, inspired by the sentiments which found expression in the Declaration of St. Petersburg of 29 November (11 December) 1868, and being desirous of renewing the declaration of The Hague of 29 July 1899, which has now expired,

            Declare :

            The Contracting Powers agree to prohibit, for a period extending to the close of the Third Peace Conference,  the  discharge  of  projectiles  and explosives from balloons, or by other new methods of a similar nature.

            The present Declaration is only binding on the Contracting Powers in case of war between two or more of them.

            It shall cease to be binding from the time when, in a war between the Contracting Powers, one of the belligerents is joined by a non-Contracting Power.

            The present Declaration shall be ratified as soon as possible.

            The ratifications shall be deposited at The Hague.

            A proces-verbal shall be drawn up on the receipt of each ratifications, of which a duly certified copy shall be sent, through the diplomatic channel, to all the Contracting Powers.

            Non-Signatory Powers may adhere to the present Declaration. To do so, they must make known their adhesion to the Contracting Powers by means of a written notification, addressed to the Netherlands Government, and communicated by it to all the other Contracting Powers.

            In the event of one of the High Contracting Parties denouncing the present Declaration, such denunciation shall not take effect until a year after the notification made in writing to the Netherlands Government, and forthwith communicated by it to all the other Contracting Powers.

            This denunciation shall only have effect in regard to the notifying Power.

            In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries have appended their signatures to the present Declaration.

            Done at The Hague, 18 October 1907 in a single copy, which shall remain deposited in the archives of the Netherlands Government, and duly certified copies of which shall be sent through the diplomatic channel, to the Contracting Powers.

SIGNATURES, RATIFICATIONS AND ACCESSIONS
State	Signature	Ratification, Accession Notification of Continuity (C)
Argentine Republic Austria-Hungary Belgium Bolivia Brazil Bulgaria China Colombia Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Ethiopia Fiji Finland Great Britain Greece Haiti Liberia Luxemburg Netherlands Nicaragua Norway Panama Persia Peru Portugal Siam Switzerland Turkey United States of America Uruguay	18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 – – – 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 – 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 – 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907 18 October 1907	– – 8 August 19__ 27 November 1909  5 January 1914 – 27 November 1909 – – – – 27 November 1909 2 August 1935 2 April 1973 9 June 1922 27 November 1909 – 2 February 1910 4 February 1914 5 September 1912 27 November 1909 16 December 1909 19 September 1910 11 September 1977 – – 13 April 1911 12 March 1910 12 May 1910 – 27 November 1909 –

RESERVATIONS

None

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¹    The authentic text is French. This is the English translation of the United States Department of State. D. Schindler J. Toman, eds., The Laws of Armed Conflicts (The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1988) at 201-206. This Declaration entered into force on 27 November 1909. According to paragraph 2, the Declaration would remain in force to the close of the third Peace Conference. Up to now such a Conference has never met; therefore, the Declaration is still formally in force today. Thailand (Siam) signed this Declaration on 29 July 1899 and then ratified it on 12 March 1910.  Back