Every treaty or international engagement entered into hereafter by any Member of the League shall be forthwith registered with the Secretariat and shall as soon as possible be published by it. No such treaty or international engagement shall be binding until so registered.
The LNTS began publication in 1920, and was terminated in 1946, following the dissolution of the League of Nations. It contains 205 volumes with a total of 4,834 treaties. A nine-volume index has been created. Following the termination of that series, the registration of League of Nations treaties passed to the United Nations.
The is the result of article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, which states as follows: On December 14, 1946, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 97, which laid the rules for the registration of international agreements by the UN Secretariat. The UNTS is by far the largest collection of treaties, running to over 2,900 volumes containing 158,000 treaties from 1946. Its predecessor was the .
United States
Treaties and international agreements were formally published in Statutes at Large until 1948. The Department of State also published a number of collections relating specifically to treaties and other agreements:
Foreign Relations of the United States, published under various names since 1861
Treaty Series, issued singly in pamphlets until 1945
Executive Agreement Series, issued singly in pamphlets until 1945
After 1948, agreements have been published as Senate Documents, House Documents or in the Federal Register. Official compilations include:
Treaties and Other International Acts Series are a series of pamphlets or "slip" treaties published by the Department of State to replace the Treaty Series and the Executive Agreement Series
United States Treaties and Other International Agreements from accumulated TIAS pamphlets, published annually from 1950
Foreign Relations of the United States continues to be published as a collection
For convenience, a number of private collections of treaties have also been published:
Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776–1949, compiled by Charles I. Bevans
treaties and international agreements are published as command papers, along with a large number of other government documents. For ease of reference, command papers relating to treaties are given a second "Treaty Series" number, which is sometimes referred to as the United Kingdom Treaty Series. For example, the Treaty on Open Skies was published as Cm. 5537, but also had the Treaty Series number 26 for 2002, abbreviated as UKTS 26.
Canada
Treaties in force for Canada are published in the Canada Treaty Series.
Australia
n treaties are collected together in the Australian Treaty Series, starting with the Treaty of Versailles, ATS 1.
New Zealand
treaties are published in New Zealand Treaty Series, starting publication from 1944.
The University of South Pacific in Port Vila, Vanuatu began a publication titled Pacific Islands Treaty Series, giving the texts of treaties concluded by small states in the Pacific Ocean.
