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 Protocol to remain open for signature. Entry into force. Duration. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [59 STAT. ARTICLE V. 1. This Protocol shall remain open for signature in London on behalf of any member Government of the European Central Inland Transport Organisation. 2. This Protocol shall come into force for each Government signatory thereto as from the date of signature on its behalf. Any Government when signing the present Protocol may declare that its signature shall not become effective until this Protocol has been signed by certain other specified Governments. 3. This protocol shall remain in force for two years from this day's date. It shall thereafter remain in force subject to the right of any signatory Government, after the expiry of eighteen months from this day's date, to give six months' notice in writing to the Council of the European Central Inland Transport Organisation of its intention to withdraw from this Protocol. In witness whereof the undersigned, duly authorised by their respec- tive Governments, have signed the present Protocol. Done in London on the 27th day of September, 1945, in English, French and Russian, all three texts being equally authentic in a single copy which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, by whom certified copies shall be transmitted to all signatory Governments. For the Government of the United States of America: JOHN G. WINANT For the Government of Belgium: OBERT DE THIETUSIES For the Government of Czechoslovakia: For the Provisional Government of the French Republic: For the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: PHILIP NOEL-BAKER For the Royal Hellenic Government: TH. AGurHDES For the Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: A. ALT For the Government of the Netherlands: C. C. GISCHLER For the Government of Norway: For the Government of the Polish Republic: HIENRYK STRASBURGER For the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: F. S. BADULI For the Yugoslav Government: DR. LIJUBO LEONTI6 For the Royal Danish Government: E. REVENTLow

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