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 Guatemala, on October 8, 2002, of its instrument of accession to the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, adopted at Geneva on December 20, 1996.
The said Treaty will enter into force, with respect to the Republic of Guatemala, on January 8, 2003.
October 8, 2002