Pact of Paris

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The Pact of Paris is the common name for the 1928 international agreement in which signatory states renounced war as an instrument of national policy.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf international agreement
multilateral treaty
peace treaty
adoptedBy League of Nations members
aimedTo outlaw war as an instrument of national policy
alsoKnownAs Kellogg–Briand Pact
surface form: General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy

Kellogg–Briand Pact
surface form: Kellogg-Briand Pact

Kellogg–Briand Pact
countryOfOrigin France
draftedBy Aristide Briand
Frank B. Kellogg
enteredIntoForceOn 1929-07-24
hasArticleCount 2
hasLanguage English
French
hasParty major powers and many smaller states worldwide
hasSignatory Ethiopia
surface form: Abyssinia

Argentina
Australia
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
France
Germany
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
British India
surface form: India (British India)

Ireland
Italy
Japan
Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd
Liberia
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Norway
Panama
Paraguay
Persia
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Dominion of South Africa
surface form: Union of South Africa

United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States

Uruguay
Venezuela
Yugoslavia
historicalPeriod interwar period
influenced Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter
surface form: Charter of the United Nations Article 2(4)

customary international law on the illegality of aggressive war
isPartOf development of modern international law on the use of force
legalStatus in force
mainProvision obligation to settle disputes by pacific means
renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy
namedAfter Paris
negotiatedBy France
United States of America
surface form: United States
signedAt Paris
signedOn 1928-08-27
subjectHasRole renunciation of war as instrument of national policy
usedAsLegalBasisFor prosecution of crimes against peace at Nuremberg Trials

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Kellogg–Briand Pact hasShortName Pact of Paris