International Military Tribunal. The Signatories
shall also use their best endeavors to make available for
investigation of the charges against and the trial before the
International Military Tribunal such of the major war criminals as
are not in the territories of any of the Signatories.
Article 4. Nothing in this Agreement shall
prejudice the provisions established by the Moscow Declaration
concerning the return of war criminals to the countries where they
committed their crimes.
Article 5. Any Government of the United
Nations may adhere to this Agreement by notice given through the
diplomatic channel to the Government of the United Kingdom, who shall
inform the other signatory and adhering Governments of each such
adherence.*
Article 6. Nothing in this Agreement shall
prejudice the jurisdiction or the powers of any national or
occupation court established or to be established in any Allied
territory or in Germany for the trial of war criminals.
Article 7. This Agreement shall come into
force on the day of signature and shall remain in force for the
period of one year and shall continue thereafter, subject to the
right of any Signatory to give, through the diplomatic channel, one
month's notice of intention to terminate it. Such termination shall
not prejudice any proceedings already taken or any findings already
made in pursuance of this Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Undersigned have signed
the present Agreement.
DONE in quadruplicate in London this 8th day of August 1945 each
in English, French, and Russian, and each text to have equal
authenticity.
For the Government of the United States of America
/ s / ROBERT H. JACKSON
For the Provisional Government of the French Republic
/s / ROBERT FALCO
For the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland
/ s / JOWITT
For the Government of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics
/ s/ I. NIKITCHENKO
/s / A. TRAININ
* In accordance with Article 5, the following
Governments of the United Nations have expressed their adherence to
the Agreement: Greece, Denmark, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, Ethiopia, Australia, Honduras,
Norway, Panama, Luxembourg, Haiti, New Zealand, India, Venezuela,
Uruguay, and Paraguay.