The American Treaty on Pacific Settlement (also known as the Pact of Bogotá) was signed by the independent republics of America gathered at the Ninth International Conference of American States in Bogotá, Colombia, 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

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Denounced

* (on 24 November 1973) * – On 28 November 2012, Colombia announced it would withdraw from the treaty following an adverse ruling by the

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