Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
* [Reproduced from U.S. Senate Executive Report 102-23 (102d Cong., 2d Sess.). The Covenant was adopted unanimously by the U.N. General Assembly on December 16, 1966, and entered into force on March 23, 1976; the text appears at 6 I.L.M. 368 (1967). On April 2, 1992, the Senate gave its advice and consent to the ratification of the Covenant, and on June 8, 1992, the United States deposited its instrument of ratification. The Covenant will enter into force for the United States on September 8, 1992.]