Proclamation No. 215 Series of 1950




MALACAÑANG Manila BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES Proclamation No. 215 MAKING PUBLIC THE TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY. WHEREAS, a Treaty of Friendship between the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Turkey, designed to strengthen and perpetuate the friendly relations as happily existing between them in a manner befitting their spiritual, cultural and economic ties, was concluded and signed by the respective plenipotentiaries of the two Governments at Washington, D. C., on June thirteen, nineteen hundred and forty-nine; WHEREAS, the Senate of the Philippines by its Resolution No. 29, adopted on May 18, 1950, concurred in the making of the said Treaty of Friendship in accordance with the Constitution of the Philippines; WHEREAS, the said Treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratifications of the two Governments were exchanged at Washington, D. C, on the twenty-eighth day of September, nineteen hundred and fifty; and WHEREAS, it is stipulated in the said treaty that it shall enter into force upon the exchange of the instruments of ratification; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, have caused the said Treaty, a certified copy of which is hereto annexed, to be made public to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the Republic of the Philippines and the citizens thereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed. Done in the City of Manila, this 3rd day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the fifth. ELPIDIO QUIRINO President of the Philippines By the President: TEODORO EVANGELISTA Executive Secretary The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation