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 63 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-TELECOMMUNICATIONS-OCT. 2, 1947 1495 PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING CONFERENCES Chapter 1 Invitation and Admission to Plenipotentiary Conferences 1. The inviting Government, in collaboration with the Administrative Council, shall fix the definitive date and the exact place of the Conference. 2. One year before this date, the inviting Government shall send invi- tations to the Members and Associate Members of the Union. 3. The replies of the invited Members and Associate Members must reach the inviting Government not later than one month before the date of opening of the Conference. 4. Immediately after the inviting Government has sent the invitations, the Secretary General shall request the administrations of all Members and Associate Members to forward their proposals for the work of the Conference within a period of four months. The Secretary General shall assemble them and forward them, as soon as possible, to all Members and Associate Members. 5. The Administrative Council shall notify the United Nations of the place and date of the Conference in order that this Organization may participate in accordance with Article 26 of the Convention if it so A,, p.144L desires. 6. Any permanent organ of the International Telecommunication Union shall be admitted, as of right, to the Conference and take part in its work in an advisory capacity. 7. The inviting Government, in agreement with the Administrative Council, may invite non-contracting Governments to send observers to take part in the conferences in an advisory capacity. 8. Delegations as defined in the Annex 2 to the Convention, and A n"eP 1483. according to circumstances, the observers contemplated in paragraph 7 are admitted to the Conference. 9. The provisions of the foregoing paragraphs shall apply, so far as practicable, to extraordinary plenipotentiary conferences. Chapter 2 Invitation and Admission to Administrative Conferences 1. The inviting Government, in agreement with the Administra- tive Council, shall fix the definitive date and the exact place of the conference.

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