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Major Treaties in History
Significant treaties and international agreements.
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| 1900 | Treaty of Paris | Ends all conflicting claims over Río Muni (Equatorial Guinea). |
| Treaty of Washington | Seeks to remove any ground of misunderstanding growing out of the interpretation of Article III of the Treaty of Paris (1898) by clarifying specifics of territories relinquished to the United States by Spain. | — |
| Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish in Africa | First international agreement on wildlife conservation. | — |
| 1901 | Hay–Pauncefote Treaty | Replaces the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty. |
| Boxer Protocol | Peace agreement between the Eight-Nation Alliance and China. | — |
| 1902 | Anglo-Japanese Alliance | Treaty of alliance between England and Japan; signed by Lord Lansdowne and Hayashi Tadasu. |
| Treaty of Vereeniging | Ends the Second Boer War. | — |
| 1903 | Cuban–American Treaty of Relations (1903) | The Republic of Cuba grants the United States the right to lease land in the Guantánamo Bay area. |
| Hay–Herrán Treaty | The United States attempts to acquire a lease on Panama. | — |
| Hay–Herbert Treaty | Between the United Kingdom and the United States on the location of the border between Alaska and Canada. | — |
| Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty | Establishes the Panama Canal Zone. | — |
| Treaty of Petrópolis | Ends tensions between Bolivia and Brazil over the territory of Acre. | — |
| Southern African Customs Union Agreement | Creates customs union between British colonies and protectorates in Southern Africa. | — |
| International Sanitary Convention | Organized by the French to standardize international quarantine regulations. | — |
| 1904 | Treaty of Peace and Friendship (1904) | Fixes borders between Chile and Bolivia. |
| Treaty of Lhasa | Between Great Britain and Tibet. | — |
| 1905 | Treaty of Portsmouth | Ends the Russo-Japanese War. |
| Treaty of Björkö | A secret mutual defense accord between the German Empire and Russia. | — |
| October Manifesto | Response to Russian Revolution of 1905. Created the Duma but Tsar Nicholas II of Russia disregarded it after the country was stable again and continued his absolute rule. | — |
| Taft–Katsura Agreement | Japan and the United States agree on spheres of influence in Asia. | — |
| Convention of Karlstad | This treaty dissolves of the union between Norway and Sweden established by the Convention of Moss and Treaty of Kiel in 1814. | — |
| Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 | This treaty deprived Korean Empire of its diplomatic sovereignty, in effect making Korea a protectorate of Empire of Japan; void in 1965. | — |
| Treaty 9 (James Bay Treaty) | Conducted at Osnaburgh House trade post, on Lake St. Joseph (Albany River), Ontario, Canada, negotiating an agreement between the Canadian monarch, King Edward VII, and First Nations. There were later adhesions to the treaty. | — |
| 1906 | Second Geneva Convention | Specifies the treatment of wounded, sick and shipwrecked members of armed forces at sea.This article appears to contradict the article Second Geneva Convention. Please discuss at the talk page and do not remove this message until the contradictions are resolved. (September 2020) |
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| Treaty 10 | Conducted at Île-à-la-Crosse and Lac du Brochet, Saskatchewan, Canada, negotiating an agreement between the Canadian monarch, King Edward VII, and First Nations. There were later adhesions to the treaty in 1907. | — |
| Treaty of Limits (Brazil–Netherlands) | Defined international boundary between Brazil and Dutch colony of Surinam | — |
| 1907 | Rome Agreement | Arrangement for the creation at Paris of an Office international d'hygiène publique, signed at Rome on 9 December 1907 |
| 1909 | Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 | Formally divides northern Malay states between Siam and the British Empire. |
| 1910 | Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910 | Begins the period of Korea under Japanese rule; declared null and void in 1965. |
| Brussels Collision Convention | Governs apportionment of legal liability in maritime collision cases. | — |
| 1911 | North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 | First international treaty seeking the management and conservation of wildlife. |
| Treaty of Daan | Ends the Zaidi insurgency in Yemen in exchange for autonomy within the Ottoman Empire. | — |
| 1912 | First International Opium Convention | The first international drug control treaty. |
| Huangpu River Conservancy | Amends the agreement of September 27, 1905, between China and the United States governing the use and conservation of the Huangpu River. | — |
| 1913 | Treaty of London (1913) | Ends the First Balkan War. |
| Treaty of Bucharest (1913) | Ends the Second Balkan War. | — |
| Treaty of friendship and alliance between the Government of Mongolia and Tibet | Alliance between Mongolia and Tibet. | — |
| Treaty of Athens | Peace treaty between Ottoman Empire and Greece. Ottoman Empire acknowledges union of Crete with Greece. | — |
| Treaty of Constantinople (1913) | Peace treaty between Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria. Bulgaria acknowledges Ottoman control on Eastern Thrace. | — |
| 1914 | Bryan–Chamorro Treaty | The United States acquires the rights to any canal built in Nicaragua, to build a naval base in the Gulf of Fonseca, and to lease the Great and Little Corn Islands in the Caribbean; ratified in 1916. |
| 1915 | Treaty of London (1915) (London Pact) | Italy enters World War I. |
| Treaty of Kyakhta (1915) | Status of Mongolia | — |
| Cleveland Agreement | Statement of intention to form a Republic of Czechoslovakia. | — |
| 1916 | Sykes–Picot Agreement | France and the United Kingdom define spheres of influence in the Middle East. |
| Treaty of Bucharest (1916) | Alliance between Romania and the Entente. | — |
| 1917 | Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | August 18 – September 26, 1917. |
| Lansing–Ishii Agreement | Trade treaty between the United States and Japan. | — |
| Corfu Declaration | Statement of intention to form a Kingdom of Yugoslavia. | — |
| Anglo-French Convention of 1917 | A treaty between the United Kingdom and France laying the ground for the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War against the Bolsheviks and German interests. | — |
| 1918 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine–Central Powers) | Between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers. |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Between Russia and the Central Powers; Russia pulls out of World War I. | — |
| Treaty of Bucharest (1918) | Between Romania and the Central Powers; never ratified. | — |
| Pittsburgh Agreement | Formalization of the creation of Czechoslovakia. | — |
| Treaty of Batum | Between the First Republic of Armenia and the Ottoman Empire. | — |
| Armistice of Mudros | Ends the Middle-Eastern part of World War I and forces the Ottomans to renounce most of their imperial holdings. | — |
| Armistice of Villa Giusti | Between the Kingdom of Italy and Austria-Hungary, ending warfare on Italian Front during World War I. | — |
| Armistice with Germany | Between France, Britain, and Germany, ending World War I | — |
| Rongbatsa Agreement | Agreement upon borders between India, Nepal, Tibet and China. | — |
| 1919 | Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) | Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. |
| Treaty of Versailles | Formally ends World War I. | — |
| Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine | Between Allied Powers and Bulgaria. | — |
| Faisal–Weizmann Agreement | Agreement for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the Middle East. | — |
| Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 (Treaty of Rawalpindi) | Between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan during the Third Anglo-Afghan War; United Kingdom recognizes Afghanistan's independence; amended in 1921. | — |
| 1920 | Seventh Treaty of Paris | Union of Bessarabia and Romania. |
| Treaty of Warsaw (1920) | Between the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian People's Republic. | — |
| Treaty of Brno (1920) | Naturalizes all populaces within the respective language groups of Austria and Czechoslovakia. | — |
| Treaty of Rapallo (1920) | Between Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (subsequently the Kingdom of Yugoslavia). | — |
| Treaty of Moscow (1920) | Mutual recognition of the Russian SFSR and the Democratic Republic of Georgia | — |
| Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Finnish) | Establishes border between Russia and Finland. | — |
| Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Estonian) | Establishes border between Russia and Estonia. | — |
| Treaty of Trianon | Regulates the newly independent Hungary. | — |
| Treaty of Sèvres | Peace between the Allies of World War I and the Ottoman Empire. | — |
| Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty | Brings peace between the Republic of Latvia and Russian SFSR. | — |
| Treaty of Alexandropol | Ends the war between Turkish nationalists and the Armenian Republic. | — |
| Svalbard Treaty | The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard becomes part of the Kingdom of Norway. | — |
| 1921 | Franco-Polish alliance (1921) | Military alliance between Poland and France that was active between 1921 and 1940. |
| Anglo-Irish Treaty | Ends the Irish War of Independence and created the Irish Free State. | — |
| Peace of Riga | Ends the Polish–Soviet War. | — |
| Thomson–Urrutia Treaty | Colombia recognizes Panama's independence in return for 25 million dollars. | — |
| Treaty of Berlin (1921) | Separate post-World War I peace agreement between the United States and Germany. | — |
| Treaty of Kars | Friendship treaty between Turkey and the Soviet governments of the Transcaucasian Republics. | — |
| Treaty of Ankara (1921) | France agrees to evacuate Cilicia in return for economic concessions from Turkey; Turkey acknowledges French imperial sovereignty over Syria. | — |
| Russo-Persian Treaty of Friendship (1921) | Grants both Iran and the Soviet Union full and equal shipping rights in the Caspian Sea. | — |
| Treaty of Moscow (1921) | A friendship treaty between the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) and the Bolshevik government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. | — |
| Anglo–Afghan Treaty of 1921 | Amendments to and expansion of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 between the United Kingdom and Afghanistan | — |
| Treaty 11 | Conducted at Northwest Territories, Canada, negotiating an agreement between the Canadian monarch, King George V, and First Nations. There were further signings in 1921. | — |
| 1922 | Washington Naval Treaty | Attempts to limit naval expansion. |
| Treaty of Rapallo (1922) | Between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevist Russia. | — |
| Treaty on the Creation of the USSR | Legalized the creation of a union of several Republics of the Soviet Union in the form of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. | — |
| 1923 | Treaty of Lausanne (1923) | Sets the boundaries of modern Turkey. |
| Halibut Treaty | Canadian-American agreement concerning fishing rights in the northern Pacific Ocean. | — |
| Convention and Statute on the International Régime of Maritime Ports | Mandated equal treatment of all ships in maritime ports, regardless of nationality. | — |
| 1924 | Brussels Agreement (1924) | Multilateral treaty providing for medical treatment of seamen with venereal diseases. |
| Treaty of Rome (1924) | Revokes parts of the Treaty of Rapallo (1920) that created the independent Free State of Fiume; Fiume would be annexed to Italy while the town of Sušak would be assigned to Yugoslavia. | — |
| 1925 | Treaty of Nettuno | Defines border and immigration policy between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. |
| Locarno Treaties | Seven treaties between the World War I Western European Allied powers and the new states of central and Eastern Europe. | — |
| Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs | Adopted: The Hague - November 6, 1925. Revised in London on June 2, 1934 and on November 28, 1960. Supplemented: Monaco - November 18, 1961. Revisions: Stockholm - July 14, 1967, Geneva - August 29, 1975, Amended: September 28, 1979, Geneva - July 2, 1999 | — |
| 1926 | Treaty of Berlin (1926) | Germany and the Soviet Union pledge neutrality. |
| Treaty of San'a | Italian recognition of Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din as king of Yemen, and Yemeni claims to Aden. | — |
| 1927 | Treaty of Jeddah (1927) | Establishes the independence of present-day Saudi Arabia from the United Kingdom. |
| 1928 | Kellogg–Briand Pact | Calls "for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy". |
| Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 | 20 year treaty of peace between the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Ethiopia. | — |
| 1929 | Lateran Treaty | The Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican City formally recognize each other. |
| Geneva Convention (1929) | Establishes rules for the treatment of prisoners of war; predecessor of the 1949 Third Geneva Convention. | — |
| International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency | Criminalises the counterfeiting of currency. | — |
| 1930 | London Naval Treaty | Regulates submarine warfare and shipbuilding. |
| Convention Between the United States and Great Britain (1930) | Definitely delimits the boundary between North Borneo (then a British protectorate) and the Philippine archipelago (then a U.S. Territory). | — |
| 1931 | Treaty of Westminster (1931) | Creates the British Commonwealth. |
| 1932 | Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact | International treaty of non-aggression signed by representatives of Poland and the USSR. |
| 1934 | German–Polish declaration of non-aggression | International treaty between Nazi Germany and the Second Polish Republic; both countries pledged to settle disputes through bilateral negotiations. |
| Balkan Pact | Between Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Yugoslavia; signatories agree to suspend all disputed territorial claims against each other. | — |
| 1935 | Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance | Bilateral pact between France and the USSR with the aim of containing German aggression. |
| Treaty of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation | Reinforces the Russo-Persian Treaty of Friendship. | — |
| 1936 | Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 | The United Kingdom withdraws its troops from Egypt except those necessary to protect the Suez Canal and its surroundings. |
| Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence (1936) | France provides independence to Syria. | — |
| Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits | Approve Turkish control on Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits | — |
| 1937 | International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling | Establishes limitations on whaling practices; protocols signed in 1938 and again in 1945. |
| Treaty of Saadabad | A non-aggression pact signed by Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. | — |
| 1938 | Munich Agreement | Surrenders the Sudetenland to Germany. |
| 1939 | Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact | Soviet-German non-aggression pact. |
| Pact of Steel | Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy. | — |
| 1940 | Moscow Peace Treaty | Ends the Winter War. |
| Treaty of Commerce and Navigation | Reinforces the Treaty of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation between Iran and the Soviet Union. | — |
| Tripartite Pact | Axis Powers of Second World War are formed | — |
| Treaty of Craiova | Romania cedes territories to Bulgaria. | — |
| 1941 | Tokyo Convention | Ends the Franco-Thai War. |
| 1942 | Anglo-Soviet Treaty of 1942 | Twenty-year mutual assistance agreement between the United Kingdom and the USSR that establishes both a military and political alliance. |
| 1944 | Bretton Woods Agreement | Establishes rules for commercial and financial relations among the major industrial states. |
| Tito–Šubašić Agreement | Attempts to merge Yugoslavian governments. | — |
| Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation | Establishes the International Civil Aviation Organization; ratified in 1947. | — |
| London Protocol (1944) | Prepares for the division of Germany into three occupation zones. | — |
| 1945 | Treaty of Varkiza | Attempts to officially end the Greek Civil War. |
| United Nations Charter | Establishes the United Nations. | — |
| Wanfried Agreement | Transfers three Hessian villages to the Soviet Union and two Eichsfeld villages to the United States. | — |
| 1946 | Bermuda Agreement | Bilateral agreement on civil aviation between the United States and United Kingdom. |
| Keflavik Agreement | Between the US and Iceland | — |
| Gruber–De Gasperi Agreement | South Tyrol and Trentino remain part of Italy, but ensures their autonomy as region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. | — |
| International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling | Replaces the International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling; governs the commercial, scientific, and aboriginal subsistence whaling practices of fifty-nine member nations. | — |
| 1946 Lake Success Protocol | Shifts drug control functions previously assigned to the League of Nations to the United Nations. | — |
| Treaty of Manila (1946) | The United States recognizes the independence of the Republic of the Philippines. | — |
| Treaty of London (1946) | Great Britain recognizes the independence of Transjordan. | — |
| 1947 | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade | Establishes international trade rules. |
| Paris Peace Treaties, 1947 | Formally ends World War II in the European Theatre. | — |
| Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance | A "hemispheric defense" doctrine signed by many nations in the Americas. | — |
| United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization | Establishes the department of the United Nations that deals with Education, Science, and Culture. | — |
| 1949 | North Atlantic Treaty | Establishes NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
| Fourth Geneva Convention | Establishes rules for the protection of civilians during wartime. | — |
| Treaty of The Hague (1949) | The Netherlands grants independence to Indonesia except for the South Molucca Islands and West Irian. | — |
| Treaty of London (1949) | Creates the Council of Europe. | — |
| 1950 | Liaquat–Nehru Pact | Between Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, India. |
| Treaty of Zgorzelec | Establishes borders between the Republic of Poland and the German Democratic Republic. | — |
| 1951 | Mutual Defense Treaty (U.S.–Philippines) | A mutual defense accord between the Philippines and the United States. |
| Genocide Convention | Defines and outlaws genocide. | — |
| Treaty of San Francisco | Formally ends the war between the Allies of World War II and Japan. | — |
| Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan | A mutual defense agreement between the United States and Japan; went into effect on April 28, 1952. | — |
| U.S. and Japan Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement | Permits U.S. armed forces to station troops in Japan while encouraging Japan to rearm for defensive purposes only; went into effect on May 1, 1954. | — |
| 1952 | ANZUS Treaty | Alliance between Australia, New Zealand and the United States. |
| Treaty of Taipei | Peace treaty between Japan and the Republic of China. | — |
| General Treaty | Treaty between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Western Allies (France, UK, USA) restoring (limited) German sovereignty. | — |
| International Convention relating to Arrest of Sea-going Ships | Standardises rules relating to arrest of ships in port. | — |
| 1953 | Korean War Armistice Agreement | Ended the fighting between the United Nations Command and the Korean People's Army & PRC People's Liberation Army. |
| 1954 | Central Treaty Organization | Alliance of Middle Eastern countries and the United Kingdom. |
| Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty | Established the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, (SEATO), a defensive alliance between Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, South Vietnam, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. | — |
| 1955 | Asian–African Conference | Conference stated to promote Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism or neocolonialism by the United States, the Soviet Union, or any other "imperialistic" nation. |
| Austrian State Treaty | Re-establishes a free, sovereign and democratic Austria. | — |
| Simonstown Agreement | The Royal Navy surrenders its naval base at Simonstown, South Africa and transfers command of the South African Navy to the government of South Africa. | — |
| Warsaw Pact | Alliance of Central and Eastern European communist states. | — |
| 1956 | Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 | Reestablishes diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Japan following World War II. |
| 1957 | Anglo-Malayan Defence Agreement | Provides a security umbrella for the independent Malaya. |
| Treaty of Rome | Establishes the European Economic Community. | — |
| International Atomic Energy Treaty | Establishes the International Atomic Energy Agency. | — |
| 1958 | 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement | Bilateral treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom on nuclear weapons cooperation. |
| Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration | Protection of Appellations of Origin and establishment of an International Register of Appellations of Origin, run by the World Intellectual Property Organization. | — |
| Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone | Provides new universal legal controls for the management of marine natural resources and the control of pollution. | — |
| 1959 | Antarctic Treaty System | Sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, establishes freedom of scientific investigation and bans military activity on the continent; came into force in 1961. |
| 1960 | Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Securitybetween the United States and Japan | Strengthens Japan's ties to the "West" during the Cold War era. |
| The Indus Waters Treaty 1960 | Water sharing treaty between India and Pakistan. | — |
| 1960 Treaty of Montevideo | Establishes the Latin American Free Trade Association. | — |
| London and Zurich Agreements | Between United Kingdom, Turkey and Greece about the independence and Guarantee of Cyprus. | — |
| 1961 | Arms Control and Disarmament Agency | Strengthens U.S. national security by implementing effective policies of arms control and disarmament. |
| Apostille Convention | International treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law. It specifies the modalities through which a document issued in one of the signatory countries can be certified for legal purposes in all the other signatory states. Such a certification is called an apostille (French: certification). The apostille is an international certification. The treaty is also officially known as the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents. | — |
| Columbia River Treaty | International agreement between Canada and the United States on the development and operation of the upper Columbia River basin. | — |
| Vienna Conventionon Diplomatic Relations | International treaty on diplomatic intercourse and the privileges and immunities of diplomatic missions; came into force in 1964. | — |
| Alliance for Progress | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower attempts to establish economic cooperation between North America and South America. | — |
| Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs | International treaty regulating the manufacture and use for medical purposes, and banning the trafficking of narcotic drugs. | — |
| Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness | International treaty against statelessness; went into effect on December 13, 1975. | — |
| Rome Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations | Adopted on October 26, 1961. The Rome Convention secures protection in performances for performers, in phonograms for producers of phonograms and in broadcasts for broadcasting organizations. | — |
| 1962 | Nassau Agreement | The United States provides the United Kingdom with nuclear-armed Polaris missiles in return for a nuclear submarine base in the Holy Loch, near Glasgow. |
| New York Agreement | Agreement between the Republic of Indonesia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands Concerning West New Guinea (West Irian). Transferred responsibility for a territory to the United Nations and arranged for subsequent administration by Indonesia pending an act of self-determination defined in agreement. | — |
| Sino–North Korean Border Treaty | Border treaty made in secret between the People's Republic of China and North Korea that, in combination with a subsequent 1963 treaty, defines the modern border between the two countries. | — |
| 1963 | Vienna Conventionon Consular Relations | Multilateral treaty that codifies consular practices. |
| Vienna Conventionon Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage | Sets rules of liability for any and all forms of nuclear damage. | — |
| Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | Prohibiting all test detonations of nuclear weapons except underground. | — |
| Élysée Treaty | Franco-German agreement for joint cooperation in foreign policy, economic and military integration, and exchange of student education. | — |
| Strasbourg Convention | Harmonizes patent laws across European countries. | — |
| 1965 | Merger Treaty | Organizes the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Economic Community and Euratom; creates European Commission and the Council of the European Communities; came into force on July 1, 1967. |
| Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea | Established basic relationship between Japan and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). | — |
| 1967 | Treaty of Tlatelolco | Keeps Latin American and the Caribbean regions free of nuclear weapons. |
| ASEAN Declaration | Founding document of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. | — |
| WIPO Convention | Established the World Intellectual Property Organization. | — |
| Outer Space Treaty | Forbids the placing of nuclear weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and into outer space in general. | — |
| 1968 | Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons | Limits the spread of nuclear weapons through non-proliferation, disarmament, and the right to utilize nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. |
| 1969 | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination | Commits signatories to the elimination of racial discrimination and the promotion of understanding among all races. |
| Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties | Codifies the pre-existing international customary law on treaties with some necessary gap-filling and clarifications. | — |
| Arusha Agreement | Establishes better economic relations between the European Community and the nations of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania; came into force in 1971. | — |
| 1970 | Hague Hijacking Convention | Criminalises the hijacking of civil aviation aircraft. |
| Patent Cooperation Treaty | Provides a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions internationally; came into force in 1978; amended in 1979; modified in 1984 and 2001. | — |
| Boundary Treaty of 1970 | Settles boundary disputes between the United States and Mexico. | — |
| Treaty of Warsaw (1970) | West Germany and the People's Republic of Poland pledge themselves to nonviolence and accept the Oder–Neisse line; ratified in 1972. | — |
| 1971 | Convention on Psychotropic Substances | Attempts to control psychoactive drugs such as amphetamines, barbiturates, and LSD. |
| Five Power Defence Arrangements | Security agreement between Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. | — |
| Ramsar Convention | Focuses on the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands; went into effect in 1975. | — |
| IPC Agreement | Establishes a common classification for patents for invention, inventors' certificates, utility models and utility certificates; went into effect in 1975; amended in 1979. | — |
| Seabed Arms Control Treaty | Bans the placement of nuclear weapons on the ocean floor beyond a 12-mile (19 km) coastal zone; came into force in 1972. | — |
| Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation | Criminalises sabotage of civil aircraft and dangerous acts on board aircraft | — |
| Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation | Specifies strategic cooperation between India and the Soviet Union. | — |
| Geneva Phonograms Convention | Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms Against Unauthorized Duplication of Their Phonograms; adopted in Geneva in October 1971. | — |
| Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification | Adopted: Strasbourg - March 24, 1971. Amended: September 28, 1979. | — |
| 1972 | Addis Ababa Agreement (1972) | A series of accords between the government of Sudan and insurgents in Southern Sudan, which ended the First Sudanese Civil War |
| Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty | Limits the use of anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons (US PL 92-448). | — |
| Basic Treaty (1972) | Establishes relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic; came into effect in 1973. | — |
| Biological Weapons Convention | First multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of biological weapons (with exceptions for medical and defensive purposes in small quantities). | — |
| Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals | Provides protection for Antarctic seals; came into effect in 1978. | — |
| London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter | Attempts to control pollution of the sea via deliberate dumping by vessels, aircraft, and platforms. | — |
| Sino-Japanese Joint Communiqué | Japan recognizes PRC as the sole legal Government of China; and China renounces its demand for war reparation from Japan | — |
| Simla Agreement | Normalised relations between India and Pakistan following the Bangladesh Liberation War. | — |
| 1973 | European Patent Convention | Multilateral treaty instituting the European Patent Organisation. |
| Agreement on the Transfer of Corpses | Establishes rules and standards for the transfer of human corpses across international borders | — |
| CITES- The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora | Also known as the Washington Convention; Regulates international trade of endangered species of animals and plants (live specimens, as well as their parts and derivatives) | — |
| Treaty of Chaguaramas | Establishes the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) signed by Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Jamaica and replaces the previous Caribbean Free Trade Association in 1974. | — |
| Paris Peace Accords | Formalized American withdrawal from Vietnam. | — |
| Vientiane Treaty | A cease-fire agreement between the monarchial government of Laos and the communist Pathet Lao. | — |
| Agreement on the Transfer of Corpses | Establishes rules and standards for the transport of human corpses across international borders. Intended to replace a similar 1937 treaty. | — |
| Sunningdale Agreement | Established a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive under Brian Faulkner of the UUP and Gerry Fitt of the SDLP. | — |
| 1974 | Japan–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement | Treaty between Australia and Japan to minimise harm to the major areas used by birds that migrate between the two countries; came into force in 1981. |
| Threshold Test Ban Treaty | Establishes a nuclear "threshold" by prohibiting nuclear tests of devices having a yield exceeding 150 kilotons. | — |
| Brussels Convention Relating to the Distribution of Programme-Carrying Signals Transmitted by Satellite | The Brussels or Satellites Convention provides for the obligation of each Contracting State to take adequate measures to prevent the unauthorized distribution on or from its territory of any programme-carrying signal transmitted by satellite. | — |
| 1975 | Treaty of Osimo | Divides the Free Territory of Trieste between Italy and Yugoslavia. |
| Treaty of Lagos | Establishes the Economic Community of West African States. | — |
| 1976 | Environmental Modification Convention | Prohibits the military or other hostile use of environmental modification techniques; came into force in 1978. |
| Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia | Treaty signed among the founding members of ASEAN and acceded to by all ASEAN members and 15 non-members. | — |
| Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims | Admiralty law treaty regarding liability for maritime claims. | — |
| 1977 | Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure | Adopted in 1977, the Budapest Treaty concerns a specific topic in the international patent process: microorganisms. |
| Torrijos–Carter Treaties | Abrogates the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty and guarantees Panama its eventual control of the Panama Canal after 1999. | — |
| 1978 | Camp David Accords | Agreement between Egypt and Israel. |
| Treaty of Peace and Friendship betweenJapan and the People's Republic of China | Peace agreement between Japan and the People's Republic of China. | — |
| 1979 | Egypt–Israel peace treaty | Israel and Egypt agree to mutually recognize each other; Israel agrees to withdraw its troops from the Sinai Peninsula in return for Israeli ships to gain free passage through the Suez Canal. |
| Moon Treaty | Turns jurisdiction of all heavenly bodies to the international community; went into effect in 1984. | — |
| Treaty of Accession 1979 | The accession of Greece to the European Union. | — |
| Treaty of Montevideo | Both Argentina and Chile pledge to a peaceful solution to their border disputes at the Beagle Channel. | — |
| 1981 | Nairobi Treaty on the Protection of the Olympic Symbol | All parties to the Nairobi Treaty are under the obligation to protect the Olympic symbol against commercial use (in advertisements, on goods, as a mark, etc.) without the authorization of the International Olympic Committee. |
| 1983 | Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement | A free trade agreement between the governments of New Zealand and Australia. |
| 1984 | Sino-British Joint Declaration | The United Kingdom relinquishes Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. |
| Nkomati Accord | Nonagression treaty between Mozambique and the Republic of South Africa. | — |
| Oujda Treaty | Morocco and Libya establish the Arabic–African Union. | — |
| Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina | Resolves disputes between Argentina and Chile over the possession of the Picton, Lennox and Nueva islands. | — |
| 1985 | Plaza Accord | The Group of Five agree to devalue the US dollar in relation to the Japanese yen and German Deutsche Mark by intervening in currency markets. |
| Schengen Agreement | Establishes for the European Community a border system and a common policy on the temporary entry of persons. | — |
| 1985 Helsinki Protocol on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions | Provides for a 30% reduction in sulphur emissions and their transboundary fluxes by 1993; came into effect in 1987. | — |
| Treaty of Rarotonga | Formalizes a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the South Pacific. | — |
| 1986 | China–Australia Migratory Bird Agreement | Treaty between Australia and China to minimise harm to major areas used by birds that migrate between the two countries; came into force in 1988. |
| Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident | In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, states agree to promptly notify each other and the IAEA of nuclear accidents that occur. | — |
| 1987 | Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty | Eliminates nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers (310 to 3,420 miles); ratified and came into force in 1988. |
| Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau | Portugal relinquishes Macau to the People's Republic of China. | — |
| 1988 | Nitrogen Oxide Protocol | Provides for the control or reduction of nitrogen oxides and their transboundary fluxes; came into effect in 1991. |
| United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances | Enforcing the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. | — |
| Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation | Criminalises hijacking and other dangerous acts on ships. | — |
| Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports serving International Civil Aviation | Protocol to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation, criminalises dangerous or violent acts in airports | — |
| 1989 | Montreal Protocol | Attempts to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of a number of substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion. |
| Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe | Establishes limits on key categories of conventional military equipment in Europe and mandates the destruction of excess weaponry. | — |
| Timor Gap Treaty | Between the governments of Australia and Indonesia; rewritten in 2001. | — |
| Wellington Convention | Prohibits the use of fishing driftnets in the South Pacific that are longer than 2.5 metres. | — |
| Washington Treaty | Adopted in Washington on May 26, 1989 | — |
| 1990 | Malaysia–Singapore Points of Agreement of 1990 | Treaty regarding the future of railway land owned by the Malaysian government through Malayan Railways in Singapore. |
| 1990 Chemical Weapons Accord | On June 1, 1990, Presidents George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign the bilateral U.S.-Soviet Chemical Weapons Accord. | — |
| Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany | The Four Powers renounce all rights they formerly held in Germany and Germany renounces all claims to territories east of the Oder–Neisse line. | — |
| 1991 | Brioni Agreement | Ends ten-day war in Slovenia. |
| Abuja Treaty | International agreement that creates the African Economic Community. | — |
| Treaty of Asunción | International treaty signed between Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay, served as the basis for the establishment of the Mercosur trade bloc. | — |
| Belavezha Accords | Agreement which declared the Soviet Union effectively dissolved and established the Commonwealth of Independent States in its place. | — |
| 1992 | Maastricht Treaty | Establishes the European Union. |
| United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | Attempts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses in order to combat global warming. | — |
| Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) | Conservation of biological diversity (or biodiversity), sustainable use of its components, and a fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from genetic resources. | — |
| Treaty on Open Skies | Establishes an international program of unarmed aerial surveillance flights over all participants' territories. | — |
| CIS Collective Security Treaty | Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan establish framework for the Commonwealth of Independent States. | — |
| Sochi agreement | Georgian and South Ossetian forces signed a ceasefire to halt the contemporaneously recognized "civil war." | — |
| 1993 | Oslo I Accord | Between the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization. |
| Chemical Weapons Convention | Outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. | — |
| 1994 | Israel–Jordan peace treaty | Normalizes relations between Israel and Jordan and resolves territorial disputes between them. |
| North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) | Free trade agreement between Canada, the United States of America, and Mexico. | — |
| Kremlin accords | Stops the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles at targets in any nation and provides for the dismantling of Russian nuclear weapons in Ukraine. | — |
| Bishkek Protocol | Provisional ceasefire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan. | — |
| United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea | Provides universal legal controls for the management of marine natural resources and the control of pollution. | — |
| United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification | Agreement to combat desertification and to mitigate the effects of drought; came into force in 1996. | — |
| Convention on Nuclear Safety | States agree to general safety rules regarding civilian nuclear power plants and programmes. | — |
| Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances | Provides security guarantee to Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus from US, UK and Russia. | — |
| Agreement on a Cease-fire and Separation of Forces | Georgia and Abkhaz separatists sign a ceasefire agreement which provides for the deployment of UN-mandated CIS peacekeeping force to the conflict region. | — |
| Trademark Law Treaty | Adopted in Geneva on October 27, 1994 | — |
| 1995 | Erdut Agreement | Peaceful resolution of the conflict in Eastern Slavonia. |
| Dayton Agreement | Ends Bosnian War. | — |
| General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATT) | Extends the multilateral trading system to provide services (i.e. tertiary sector of industry). | — |
| 1996 | Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty | Forbids all nuclear explosions in all environments for military or civilian purposes. |
| Khasavyurt Accord | Ceasefire agreement that ends the First Chechen War. | — |
| WIPO Copyright Treaty | Provides additional protections for copyright deemed necessary due to advances in information technology. | — |
| WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty | Establishes rights and privileges for performers and producers of audio-visual works. | — |
| Mahakali treaty | Agreement between the Government of Nepal and the Government of India regarding the development of watershed of Mahakali River. | — |
| 1997 | Amsterdam Treaty | Substantially revises the Maastricht Treaty; came into effect on May 1, 1999. |
| Ottawa Treaty | Bans all anti-personnel landmines (AP-mines). | — |
| Chemical Weapons Convention | Outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. | — |
| Kyoto Protocol | Mandates the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions; negotiated in 1997, ratified in 2004, and went into effect in 2005. | — |
| Russian–Ukrainian Friendship Treaty | Fixes the principle of strategic partnership, the recognition of the inviolability of existing borders, respect for territorial integrity and mutual commitment not to use its territory to harm the security of each other. Ratified in 1998 by Ukraine and in 1999 by Russia. | — |
| Russia–Chechnya Peace Treaty | Russia and Chechen republic of Ichkeria sign a peace treaty following the First Chechen War, but the issue of independence remains unresolved and leads to the Second Chechen War. | — |
| 1998 | Good Friday Agreement | Major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process. |
| POP Air Pollution Protocol | Agreement to provide for the control and reduction of emissions of persistent organic pollutants; has not yet come into effect. | — |
| Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court | Establishes the International Criminal Court. | — |
| 1999 | Adapted Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty | Replaces ceilings given to NATO and the Warsaw Pact with territorial ones. |
| East African Community Treaty | Establishes the East African Community between Uganda, Kenya and the Republic of Tanzania; went into effect on July 7, 2000. | — |
| Kumanovo Agreement | Concluded the Kosovo War; went into effect on June 9, 1999. | — |
| Narrative Protocol on Eastern and Western Sections of the China–Russia Boundary between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Russian Federation | China's Jiang Zemin and Russia's president, Boris Yeltsin, signed in Beijing on Dec 9th, 1999. The treaty formally recognized 1.6 million square kilometers of land occupied by Russia belongs to Russia, and gave Russia the exit point of the Tumen River, cutting off northeast China from the Sea of Japan | — |
| Treaty Between the United States of America and Ukraine on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters | Establishes an agreement to provide mutual assistance in connection with the investigation, prosecution and prevention of offenses, and in proceedings related to criminal matters. | — |
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