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 62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION-JULY 5, 1947 3315 Director as well as other unclassified personnel it names when necessary upon the recommendation of the Government of the Swiss Confederation; approving on the recommendation of the Director of the Bureau the appointments of other employees; and authorizing the use of additional personnel considered necessary; preparing an annual report on the operations of the Bureau which it sends to the members of the Union. 12. At the close of each meeting, the Committee sends an analytical Reports. report to the Administrations of the countries of the Union as information. 13. The Committee makes a report to the Congress on all of its activities, and sends it to the contracting countries at least two months before the opening of the Congress. ARTICLE 19. Conferences. 1. Conferences charged with the examination of purely adminis- trative questions may be called together at the request or with the consent of at least two-thirds of the Administrations of the Union. They are called together after agreement with the International Bureau. 2. Each Conference draws up its own regulations. Regulations. ARTICLE 20. Committees. Committees charged by a Congress or a Conference with the study of one or more particular questions are called together by the Inter- national Bureau, after agreement, if necessary, with the Administra- tion of the country where such Committees are to meet. CHAPTER III. Propositions in the Interval Between Meetings. ARTICLE 21. Introduction of propositions. 1. In the interval between meetings any Administration has the right to address to the other Administrations, through the intermediary of the International Bureau, propositions concerning the Convention, its Final Protocol, and its Regulations. 2. The same right is accorded to the Administrations of the countries participating in the Agreements in regard to those Agreements, their Regulations, and their Final Protocols. 3. In order to be considered, all propositions introduced by an Administration in the interval between meetings must be supported by at least two other Administrations. Such propositions are ignored when the International Bureau does not receive, at the same time, the necessary number of declarations of support. 68706-52 -PT. I -- 5

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