As approved by the Senate:
Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein),
SECTION 1. SENATE ADVICE AND CONSENT SUBJECT TO DECLARATIONS AND A CONDITION
\tThe Senate advises and consents to the ratification of the Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the \u201cMontreal Protocol\u201d), adopted at Kigali on October 15, 2016, by the Twenty-Eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (\u201cThe Kigali Amendment\u201d) (Treaty Doc. 117-1), subject to the declarations of section 2 and the condition of section 3.
SECTION 2. DECLARATIONS
\tThe advice and consent of the Senate under section 1 is subject to the following declarations:
\t\t(1) The Kigali amendment is not self-executing.
(2) The People\u2019s Republic of China is not a developing country, and the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations should not treat the People\u2019s Republic of China as such.
SEC. 3. CONDITION.
The advice and consent of the Senate under section 1 is subject to the following condition: Prior to the Thirty-Fifth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol, the Secretary of State shall transmit to the Secretariat of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer a proposal to amend Decision I/12E, \u201cClarification of terms and definitions: developing countries,\u201d made at the First Meeting of the Parties, to remove the People\u2019s Republic of China.