text: FM 2-22.3 ____________________________________________________________________________________
  ARTICLE 140
  Accessions shall be notified in writing to the Swiss Federal Council, and shall take effect six
  months after the date on which they are received.
  The Swiss Federal Council shall communicate the accessions to all the Powers in whose name
  the Convention has been signed, or whose accession has been notified.
  ARTICLE 141
  The situations provided for in Articles 2 and 3 shall give immediate effect to ratifications
  deposited and accessions notified by the Parties to the conflict before or after the beginning of
  hostilities or occupation. The Swiss Federal Council shall communicate by the quickest method
  any ratifications or accessions received from Parties to the conflict.
  ARTICLE 142
  Each of the High Contracting Parties shall be at liberty to denounce the present Convention.
  The denunciation shall be notified in writing to the Swiss Federal Council, which shall transmit
  it to the Governments of all the High Contracting Parties.
  The denunciation shall take effect one year after the notification thereof has been made to the
  Swiss Federal Council. However, a denunciation of which notification has been made at a time
  when the denouncing Power is involved in a conflict shall not take effect until peace has been
  concluded, and until after operations connected with the release and repatriation of the persons
  protected by the present Convention have been terminated.
  The denunciation shall have effect only in respect of the denouncing Power. It shall in no way
  impair the obligations which the Parties to the conflict shall remain bound to fulfill by virtue of
  the principles of the law of nations, as they result from the usages established among civilized
  peoples, from the laws of humanity and the dictates of the public conscience.
  ARTICLE 143
  The Swiss Federal Council shall register the present Convention with the Secretariat of the
  United Nations. The Swiss Federal Council shall also inform the Secretariat of the United
  Nations of all ratifications, accessions and denunciations received by it with respect to the
  present Convention.
  IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, having deposited their respective full powers, have
  signed the present Convention.
  DONE at Geneva this twelfth day of August 1949, in the English and French languages. The
  original shall be deposited in the Archives of the Swiss Confederation. The Swiss Federal Council
  shall transmit certified copies thereof to each of the signatory and acceding States.