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UNITED
NATIONS


                                                   Distr.
                                                   GENERAL
                                                     
                                                   CEDAW/C/ARG/2/Add.1
                                                   8 June 1994
                                                   ENGLISH
                                                   ORIGINAL: ENGLISH/SPANISH

COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF
  DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN


            CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES
                     UNDER ARTICLE 18 OF THE CONVENTION

                    Second reports of the States parties

                                  Addendum

                                 ARGENTINA*

                 Comment made by the Government of Argentina
                             on its reservation

                                                           
                                                 [Original:  Spanish]
                                                           
                                                 [11 May 1994]

1.   The Government of the Republic of Argentina presents its compliments to
the Secretary-General of the United Nations and, with reference to his note
CEDAW/SP/94/001 of 15 April 1994 concerning the decisions of the Committee on
the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the reservations to the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
has the honour to communicate to him the following information, without
prejudice to any additional information which he may require.

2.   When it deposited its instrument of ratification of the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women on 14 August 1985,
the Argentine Republic expressed the following reservation, the text of which
was approved by the National Congress by Act No. 23,179:  "The Argentine
Government declares that it does not consider itself bound by article 29,
paragraph 1 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women".


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     *    For the initial report submitted by the Government of
Argentina, see CEDAW/C/5/Add.39 and Amend.1; for its
consideration by the Committee, see CEDAW/C/SR.112 and 118 and
Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-third Session,
Supplement No. 38, paras. 341-396. 


3.   It is clear that the reservation was expressed in respect of one of the
final provisions of the Convention, specifically the provision relating to the
peaceful settlement of disputes between States Parties.  There is no question,
then of limiting the commitments assumed by the Argentine Republic in respect
of the object of the Convention, since the reservation does not affect the
rights protected nor the means of their protection.

4.   In relation to the mechanisms for the settlement of disputes provided for
in treaties, the Argentine Republic has traditionally reserved the right to
have recourse to an international jurisdictional forum.  Consequently, it is
an expression of the foreign policy of Argentina which goes beyond
the scope of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women.


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