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The '''Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States''' is a treaty signed at [[Montevideo]], [[Uruguay]], on December 26, 1933, during the Seventh [[International Conference of American States]]. The Convention codifies the [[declarative theory of statehood]] as accepted as part of customary [[international law]].{{not in source}}<ref name="Hersch Lauterpacht 2012 419">{{cite book|author=Hersch Lauterpacht|title=Recognition in International Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EWgEv1Qq2TwC&pg=PA419|year=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|page=419|isbn=9781107609433}}</ref> At the conference, [[United States]] President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] [[Cordell Hull]] declared the ''[[Good Neighbor Policy]]'', which opposed U.S. armed intervention in inter-American affairs. The convention was signed by 19 states. The acceptance of three of the signatories was subject to minor reservations. Those states were [[Brazil]], [[Peru]] and the [[United States]].<ref name=rat/>

The convention became operative on December 26, 1934. It was registered in ''[[League of Nations]] Treaty Series'' on January 8, 1936.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.worldlii.org/int/other/treaties/LNTSer/1936/9.html|title=United States of America - Convention on Rights and Duties of States adopted by the Seventh International Conference of American States, Signed at Montevideo, December 26th, 1933 [1936] LNTSer 9; 165 LNTS 19|website=www.worldlii.org|pages=20–43}}</ref>