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Rh Salvador, which forms part of the Postal Union, not having been represented at the Congress, the Protocol remains open to it in order that it may adhere to the Conventions which have been concluded there or only to one or other of them.

It remains open with the same object:

The Protocol likewise remains open to the Chinese Empire and the Empire of Ethiopia, whose delegates to the Congress have announced the intention of those countries to enter the Universal Postal Union on a date to be fixed hereafter.

The Protocol remains open to those countries whose representatives have to-day signed only the principal Convention, or only a certain number of the Conventions settled by the Congress, in order to admit of their adherence to the other Conventions signed this day, or to one or other of them.

The adhesions contemplated in the foregoing Article VII must be notified to the Government of Italy by the respective Governments in diplomatic form. The term accorded to them for that notification will expire on the 1st of July 1907.

In the event of one or more of the contracting parties to the Postal Conventions signed to-day at Rome not ratifying one or other of those Conventions, this Convention shall be none the less valid for the States which shall have ratified it.

In faith of which the undermentioned plenipotentiaries have drawn up the present final Protocol, which shall have the same force and validity as if its provisions were inserted in the text itself of the Conventions to which it relates, and they have signed it on a single copy which shall remain in the Archives of the Government of Italy and of which a copy shall be delivered to each party.

Done at Rome, the 26th of May, 1906.