Editing Genocide Convention (section)

====Application to non-self-governing territories====
{{blockquote|Any Contracting Party may at any time, by notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, extend the application of the present Convention to all or any of the territories for the conduct of whose foreign relations that Contracting Party is responsible|Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 12<ref name="Convention-text" />}}

Several countries opposed this article, considering that the convention automatically also should apply to Non-Self-Governing Territories:
*{{flagicon|Albania}} Albania
*{{flagicon|Belarus}} Belarus
*{{flagicon|Bulgaria}} Bulgaria
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} Hungary
*{{flagicon|Mongolia}} Mongolia
*{{flagicon|Myanmar}} Myanmar
*{{flagicon|Poland}} Poland
*{{flagicon|Romania}} Romania
*{{flagicon|Russia}} Russian Federation
*{{flagicon|Ukraine}} Ukraine

The opposition of those countries were in turn opposed by:
*{{flagicon|Australia}} Australia
*{{flagicon|Belgium}} Belgium
*{{flagicon|Brazil}} Brazil
*{{flagicon|Ecuador}} Ecuador
*{{flagicon|PRC}} China
*{{flagicon|Netherlands}} Netherlands
*{{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} Sri Lanka
*{{flagicon|UK}} United Kingdom

(However, exceptionally, Australia did make such a notification at the same time as the ratification of the convention for Australia proper, on 8 July 1949, with the effect that the convention did apply also to all territories under Australian control simultaneously, as the USSR ''et alii'' had demanded. The European colonial powers in general did not then make such notifications.)