(A) 50 countries
(B) 45 countries
(C) 60 countries
(D) ** 65 countries
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -Signatories included France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Italy and Japan.
Concept note-2: -The agreement became known as the Kellogg-Briand Pact in recognition of its primary creators and was signed in Paris, France, on August 27, 1928. The main text has two articles: Signatories shall renounce war as a national policy and; Signatories shall settle disputes by peaceful means.
Concept note-3: -Kellogg-Briand Pact, also called Pact of Paris, (August 27, 1928), multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. It was the most grandiose of a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I.
Concept note-4: -The Kellogg-Briand Pact intended to establish “the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy, ” but was largely ineffective in preventing conflict or war.
Concept note-5: -Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand crafted the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact. This international peace proposal committed 15 nations to outlawing aggression and war in settling disputes. President Coolidge signed the Pact on January 17, 1929.