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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 784, September 5, 1961 ]

MAKING PUBLIC THE TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND FINAL PROTOCOL BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE SWISS CONFEDERATION

WHEREAS, a Treaty of Friendship and Final Protocol between the Republic of the Philippines and the Swiss Confederation was concluded and signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Manila on the 30th of August, 1956;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Philippines by its Resolution No. 93, adopted on May 11, 1957, concurred in the ratification of the said Treaty and Final Protocol in accordance with the Constitution of the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the said Treaty and Final Protocol had been duly ratified on both parts, and the instruments of ratification of the two Governments were exchanged at Manila on the 9th of December, 1957;

WHEREAS, it is stipulated in the said Treaty that it shall enter into force upon the exchange of the instruments of ratification;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines, have caused the said Treaty and Final Protocol, a certified copy of which is hereto attached, to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled With good faith by the Republic of the Philippines and the citizens thereof.1aшphi1

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 5th day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixteenth.

CARLOS P. GARCIA
President of the Philippines

By the President:

NATALIO P. CASTILLO
Executive Secretary

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