Article II: Establishment of INTELSAT
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(a)
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With full
regard for the principles set forth in the Preamble to this Agreement, the
Parties hereby establish the international telecommunications satellite
organization "INTELSAT", the main purpose of which is to continue and carry
forward on a definitive basis the design, development, construction,
establishment, operation and maintenance of the space segment of the global
commercial telecommunications satellite system as established under the
provisions of the Interim Agreement and the Special Agreement.
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(b)
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Each State
Party shall sign, or shall designate a telecommunication entity, public or
private, to sign, the Operating Agreement which shall be concluded in
conformity with the provisions of this Agreement and which shall be opened
for signature at the same time as this Agreement. Relations between any
telecommunications entity, acting as Signatory, and the Party which has
designated it shall be governed by applicable domestic law.
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(c)
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Telecommunications
administrations and entities may, subject to applicable domestic law,
negotiate and enter directly into appropriate traffic agreements with respect
to their use of channels of telecommunications provided pursuant to this
Agreement and the Operating Agreement, as well as services to be furnished to
the public, facilities, divisions of revenue and related business
arrangements.
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