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 1530 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [59 STAT. whose behalf the Agreement has been signed whether sig- nature on its behalf shall constitute an acceptance of the Agreement by that government and an obligation binding upon it. Acceptanmet Any State, a member of the United Nations and any State associated with them, as well as any State which remained neutral during the present world conflict, not a signatory to this Agreement, may accept the present Agreement as an obligation binding upon it by notifica- tion of its acceptance to the Government of the United States, and such acceptance shall become effective upon the date of the receipt of such notification by that Government. Coming into The present Interim Agreement shall come into force when it has been accepted by twenty-six States. [ 4] Thereafter it will become binding as to each other State indicating its acceptance to the Government of the United States on the date of the receipt of the acceptance by that Government. The Government of the United States shall inform all governments represented at the International Civil Avia- tion Conference referred to of the date on which the present Interim Agreement comes into force and shall likewise notify them of all acceptances of the Agreement. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, having been duly authorized sign this Agreement on behalf of their respective governments on the dates appearing opposite their signatures. DONE at Chicago the seventh day of December 1944, ' [The agreement came into force on June 6, 1945, the date on which the twenty-sixth acceptance of the agreement was received by the Department of State. Acceptances of the agreement by the following countries were received by the Department of State on or before June 6, 1945: Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, El Salva- dor, Ethiopia, France, Haiti, Iceland, India, Iraq, Ireland, Lebanon, Liberia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The United States of America accepted with the understanding "that the provisions of the second paragraph of Article V of the Interim Agreement on International Civil Avia- tion are, in respect of the United States of America, subject to the requirements of its constitutional processes." Afghanistan and Egypt each accepted with a statement to the effect that the ex- penses stipulated in paragraph 2 of Article V must be authorized by law before payment can be effected. India, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland accepted with the reservation that they do not consider Denmark and Thailand as being parties to the agreement nor themselves as in treaty relations with either of the two countries in respect of the agreement.]

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