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 54STAT.] MULTILATERAL-TELECOMMUNICATION-APR. 8, 1938 1581 ARTICLE 35 Invitation to Administrative Conferences [785] §1. (1) The government in charge of convening the conferences Invitation to ad- (managing government) shall fix the definitive date of the meetings. ences. [786] (2) Eighteen months before this date, it shall send the invita- tions to the contracting governments, which shall forward them to the private operating enterprises recognized by their respective govern- ments adhering to the present Regulations, and to the international organizations which may have an interest therein. [787] (3) The managing government shall have the right to invite the governments signatories to the Convention, or adhering to this act, which have not yet adhered to the present Regulations. [788] §2. (1) The invited governments shall send to the managing government, together with their reply, a list of the private operating enterprises recognized by them which have applied for admission to the conference. [789] (2) Applications for admission made by international organiza- tions must be sent to the managing government (through the com- petent governments), within a period of five months from the date of the invitation. [790] §3. (1) Six months before the meeting of the conference, the managing government shall advise the contracting governments of the applications mentioned in §2 (2) [No. 789] and invite them to state their position as to the acceptance of these applications. [791] (2) The contracting governments must send their answer so that it will reach its destination four months before the date of the meeting. [792] §4. The following shall be admitted to the conferences: [793] (a) the delegations of the contracting governments or gov- ernments adhering to the present Regulations, the dele- gations of the governments referred to in §1 (3) [No. 787], and the representatives of the private operating enterprises recognized by the contracting governments; [794] (b) the international organizations referred to in §2 (2) [No. 789] concerning which at least one half of the contracting governments have sent a favorable answer within the period fixed under §3 (2) [No. 791]. [795] §5. As to the other international organizations, the decision as to whether or not they shall be admitted shall rest with the plenary assembly. ARTICLE 36 Effective Date of the General Regulations [796] The present General Regulations shall go into effect on Janu- ary 1, 1939, except for article 7, which shall apply from September 1, 1939. [797] In witness whereof the respective delegates have signed the present General Regulations in a single copy which shall remain de- posited in the archives of the Egyptian Government and a certified copy of which shall be forwarded to each contracting government. Effective date of general regulations. Ante, p. 1429.

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