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Article XXVI Depositary

(a)

The Government of the French Republic shall be the Depositary for the Convention, with which shall be deposited instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, requests for provisional application and notifications of ratification, acceptance or approval of amendments, of decisions to withdraw from EUTELSAT or of termination of the provisional application of the Convention.

(b)

The Convention shall be deposited in the archives of the Depositary. The Depositary shall send certified copies of the text of the Convention to all States that have signed it or deposited instruments of accession to it, and to the International Telecommunication Union.

(c)

The Depositary shall promptly inform all States which have signed or acceded to the Convention, all Signatories and, if necessary, the International Telecommunication Union of:

(i)

all signatures of the Convention;

(ii)

the deposit of all instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession;

(iii)

the start of the sixty-day period referred to in paragraph (a) of Article XXII of the Convention;

(iv)

the entry into force of the Convention;

(v)

all requests for provisional application under paragraph (d) of Article XXII of the Convention;

(vi)

the appointment of the Director General, any objections to and the confirmation of that appointment under paragraph (a) of Article XIII of the Convention;

(vii)

the adoption and entry into force of all amendments to the Convention;

(viii)

all notifications of withdrawal;

(ix)

all decisions by the Assembly of Parties under paragraph (b) of Article XVIII of the Convention that a Party is deemed to have withdrawn from EUTELSAT;

(x)

all decisions by the Board of Signatories under paragraph (b) of Article XVIII of the Convention that a Signatory is deemed to have withdrawn from EUTELSAT;

(xi)

all substitutions of Signatories made under paragraphs (b) and (c) of Article XVIII of the Convention;

(xii)

all suspensions and restorations of rights;

(xiii)

all other notifications and communications about the Convention.


(d)

Upon entry into force of the Convention, the Depositary shall send to the Secretariat of the United Nations, for registration and publication in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, confirmed certified copies of the Convention and the Operating Agreement.
In witness whereof the undersigned, duly authorized by their respective Governments, have signed this Convention.
Opened for signature at Paris this fifteenth day of July one thousand nine hundred and eighty two in the English and French languages, both texts being equally authentic, in a single original.


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