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 Latvia, on September 29, 1994, of its instrument of accession to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks of April 14, 1891, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and amended on September 28, 1979.
The said instrument contains also the following declaration: "Pursuant to Article 3bis(1) of the Agreement, the Government of the Republic of Latvia declares that protection resulting from international registration shall extend to the Republic of Latvia only at the express request of the proprietor of the mark."
The Madrid Agreement, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967 and amended on September 28, 1979, will enter into force, with respect to the Republic of Latvia on January 1, 1995.
October 1, 1994