![Representatives of four states who ratified the Genocide Convention on October 14, 1950: (seated, left to right) Dr. [LCID: lemkin3]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d5ad72a3-17fb-4d45-972f-d56634357f52.jpg)
Representatives of four states who ratified the Genocide Convention on October 14, 1950.
Seated from left to right: Dr. John P. Chang (Korea), Dr. Jean Price-Mars (Haiti), Assembly President Amb. Nasrollah Entezam (Iran), Amb. Jean Chauvel (France), Mr. Ruben Esquivel de la Guardia (Costa Rica), (standing, left to right) Dr. Ivan Kerno (Asst. Secretary General for Legal Affairs), Mr. Trygve Lie (Secretary-General of U.N.), Mr. Manuel A. Fournier Acuna (Costa Rica), and Dr. Raphael Lemkin (crusader for the Genocide Convention). Lake Success, New York, October 14, 1950.
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