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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [60 STAT. tution involving new obligations for Member nations shall require the approval of the Conference by a vote concurred in by a two-thirds majority of all the members of the Conference and shall take effect on acceptance by two-thirds of the Member nations for each Member nation accepting the amendment and thereafter for each remaining Member nation on acceptance by it. 2. Other amendments shall take effect on adoption by the Confer- ence by a vote concurred in by a two-thirds majority of all the members of the Conference. ARTICLE XXI ENTRY INTO FORCE OF CoNsTrrTTIO N 1. This Constitution shall be open to acceptance by the nations specified in Annex I. 2. The instruments of accept- ance shall be transmitted by each government to the United Nations Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture, which shall notify their receipt to the governments of the nations specified in Annex I. Acceptance may be notified to the Interim Commission through a diplomatic representative, in which case the instrument of acceptance must be transmitted to the Commission as soon as possible thereafter. 3. Upon the receipt by the In- terim Commission of twenty noti- fications of acceptance the Interim Commission shall arrange for this Constitution to be signed in a single copy by the diplomatic representatives, duly authorized thereto, of the nations who shall have notified their acceptance, and upon being so signed on behalf of not less than twenty of the nations specified in Annex I this Constitu- tion shall come into force imme- diately. 4. Acceptances the notification of which is received after the entry into force of this Constitu- tion shall become effective upon receipt by the Interim Commis- sion or the Organization. ARTICLE XXII FIRST SESSION OF THE CONFERENCE The United Nations Interim Commission on Food and Agri- culture shall convene the first ses- sion of the Conference to meet at a suitable date after the entry into force of this Constitution. ARTICLE XXIII LANGUAGES Pending the adoption by the Conference of any rules regarding languages, the business of the Conference shall be transacted in English. ARTICLE XXIV TEMPORARY SEAT The temporary seat of the Or- ganization shall be at Washington unless the Conference should otherwise determine. ARTICLE XXV FIRST FINANCIAL YEAR The following exceptional ar- rangements shall apply in respect of the financial year in which this Constitution comes into force: (a) the hndrat. shall be the 1892 \-, -- _ _5 _

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