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 Zimbabwe, on September 29, 1981, of its instrument of accession to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967.
The Republic of Zimbabwe will belong to Class VII for the purpose of establishing its contribution towards the budget of the Paris Union.
It is to be noted that, in a communication received by the Government of the Swiss Confederation on September 29, 1981, the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe notified the succession of Zimbabwe to the Paris Convention as revised at Lisbon on October 31, 1958, as from the date of attainment of independence of Zimbabwe on April 18, 1980.
The said Convention as revised will enter into force, with respect to the Republic of Zimbabwe, three months after the date of this notification, that is, on December 30, 1981.
September 30, 1981