
Right: Switzerland's instrument of ratification

Left: Culture shock -- Swiss chocolate meets Singapore weather
Switzerland now joins Singapore as the only other nation to have signed up. This Article 28(2) reference, says Merpel, is just a tediously uninformative way of saying "This Treaty shall enter into force three months after ten States or intergovernmental organizations ... have deposited their instruments of ratification or accession". Why doesn't the press release just say that instead giving us all that pompous diplomatic claptrap about "The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify him of the deposit by the Government of the Republic of Singapore"? Just give us the information we poor mortals need to know ...
Other countries beginning with "S" and whose instruments of ratification are awaited include the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, São Tomé and Príncipe and Somaliland.
And then there were two ...
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