Declarations by the Government of El Salvador included with the Ratification of the Treaty of Peace with Japan

6 May 1952

The United States of America and El Salvador were the only parties to the San Francisco Treaty which issued Declarations with their ratifications expressing reservations about some of the Treaty's provisions.

I

    With respect to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, the Government of El Salvador makes the following Declaration:

    El Salvador does not accept nor ratify the commitments which the other nations may have contracted with respect to the transference or final disposition of those territories enumerated in Article 2 of the Treaty of Peace with Japan, in all those cases in which the freely expressed will of the affected populations was not consulted and respected. This reservation applies to the transference of the Kurile Islands, a part of the island of Sakhalin, and any other similar case, including, furthermore, any commitment concerning the island of Formosa.

II

   With respect to the Treaty of Peace with Japan, the Government of El Salvador makes the following Declaration:

    The provisions of Article 14 of the Treaty of Peace with Japan which authorises the confiscation of the property of Japanese natural and juridical persons can have no effect in El Salvador, in view of the fact that they are contrary to its Political Constitution.