The American Treaty on Pacific Settlement (also known as the Pact of Bogotá) was signed by the independent republics of

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gathered at the Ninth International Conference of American States in

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, on 30 April 1948. The purpose of the treaty was to impose a general obligation on the signatories to settle their disputes through peaceful means. It also required them to exhaust regional dispute-settlement mechanisms before placing matters before the

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. It is one of the treaties that confer jurisdiction on the

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Signed and ratified without reservations

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Signed and ratified with reservations

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Signed but not ratified

*¹ * * *¹ * ¹ Signed with reservations.

Denounced

* (on 24 November 1973) * – On 28 November 2012,

announced it would withdraw from the treaty following an adverse ruling by the

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