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 62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-INDO-PACIFIC FISHERIES COUNCIL-FEB. 26, 1948 3715 Article IX Entry into Force 1. This Agreement shall enter into force upon the date of receipt of the fifth notification of acceptance. [1] 2. Notifications of acceptance received after the entry into force of this Agreement shall enter into force on the date of their receipt by the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations who shall immediately inform all the Govern- ments concerned and the Council of their receipt. Article X Withdrawal Any member Government may withdraw from this Agreement, at any time after the expiration of two years from the date upon which the Agreement entered into force with respect to that Government by giving written notice of such withdrawal to the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations who shall immediately inform all the Governments concerned and the Council of such withdrawal. Notices of withdrawal shall become effective three months from the date of their receipt by the Director- General. Formulated at Baguio this 26th day of February, one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight, in the English language, in a single copy which shall be deposited in the archives of the Food and Agriculture Deposit. Organization of the United Nations, which shall furnish certified copies thereof to the Governments members of the Food and Agricul- ture Organization of the United Nations. and further "RESOLVED That the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organi- zation of the United Nations be requested to communicate the text of the agreement adopted by the meeting, together with this resolu- tion, to all governments members of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; and that the governments here represented and any other member government that may be inter- ested be invited to accept the agreement." and further "RESOLVED That the working 2 Committees appointed at this Conference con- tinue to function informally until the entry into force of the Agree- Entered into force Nov. 9, 1948, the date of receipt, by the Food and Agricul- ture Organization of the United Nations, of the fifth notification of acceptance. Notifications of acceptances have been received from the following countries: Burma, Jan. 7, 1949; China, Feb. 3, 1949; France, June 30, 1948; India, Nov. 9, 1948; the Netherlands, Nov. 12, 1948; the Philippines, July 23, 1948; Siam, Oct. 6, 1948; and the United States, Sept 3, 1948. 'Committees on Hydrology, Biology, Taxonomy and Technology.

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