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 2842 INTERNATIONAL RADIO CONVENTION. NOVEMBER 25,1927. all kinds relative to radio services, with examining the requests for changes in the Conv~ntion and the Regulations annexed thereto, with promulgating the amendments adopted, and generally with performing all administrative tasks with which it shall have been charged in the interest of international radio services. §2. The expenses resulting from these activities shall be borne by all the contracting Governments in the proportion fixed by the Gen- eral Regulations. ARTICLE 17 C8In':TarmstroBot (talk)t:,~al~=t International technical consulting committee on radio communicatiom tee, etc. POll, p. 2881 •. §1. An International Technical Consulting Committee on Radio Communications shall be established for the purpose of studying technical and related questions pertalliing to these communications. §2. Its composition, activities, and operations shall be defined in the General Regulations annexed to the present Convention. ARTICLE 18 Relations with sta· Relations 'With stations 0.( non-contracting countries tlons of noncontracting 'J countries. §1. Each of the contracting governments reserves the right to determine the conditions under which it will accept telegrams or radiotele~ams originating in or destined to a station not subject to the prOVIsions of the present Convention. §2. If a telegram or a radiotelegram is accepted, it must be trans- mitted, and the usual charges must be applied to it. ARTICLE 19 . Adherenoes. Adherences §1. (1) Governments which are not parties to the present Con" vention shall be permitted to adhere to it upon their request. (2) Such adherence shall be communicated through diplomatic channels to the contracting Government within whose territory the last Conference shall have been held and by the latter to the remain- ing Governments. (3) The adherence shall carry with it to the fullest extent accept- ance of all the clauses of the present Convention and admission to all the advantages stipulated therein. §2. (1) The adherence to the Convention by the Government of a country having colonies, protectorates, or territories under sovereignty or mandate shall not carry with it the adherence of these colonies, protectorates, or territories under sovereignty or mandate, unless a declaration to that effect is made by that Government. (2) Such colonies, protectorates, or territories under sovereignty or mandate as a whole, or each of them separately, may form the subject of a separate adherence or of a separate denunciation within the pro- Pon, p. 2843. visions of the present Article and of Article 23. ARTICLE 20 . Arbitration. Arbitration §1. In case of disagreement between two contracting Governments, regarding the interpretation or execution of the present Convention or of the Regu!ations provided for in Article 13, the question must, at the request of one of these governments, be submitted to arbi- tration. For that purpose each of the Governments involved shall choose another Government not interested in the question at issue.

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