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 m6 STAT.] IMULTILATERAL -TELECOIMMIUNICATIONS-OCT. 2 . 1947 (Chapter XV, art. 41 RR) (996999) 996 (4) Where the currency of the creditor country does not fulfil the conditions specified under 994, the cheques or drafts may also be expressed in the currency of the creditor country if the two countries are agreed on this procedure. In this case the balance is converted at the gold par rate into the currency of a country fulfilling the above-mentioned con- ditions. The result arrived at is then converted into the cur- rency of the debtor country, and from this into the currency of the creditor country, at the rate of exchange current in the capital or at a commercial centre of the debtor country on the date of purchase of the cheque or draft. 997 (6) When the amount of the balance is more than 5 000 gold francs, the date of the dispatch of the cheque or draft, the date of its purchase and its amount must, upon a request by the creditor administration, be notified by the debtor ad- ministration by means of a service telegram. 998 § 19. The costs of payment are borne by the debtor ad- ministration. Section IIL Period of Retention of Accounting Records 999 § 20. The originals of radiotelegrams and the correspond- ing documents retained by the administrations are held, with all necessary precautions from the point of view of secrecy, until the settlement of the relative accounts and, in any case, for at least ten months counting from the month following the month of handing-in of the radiotelegrams. 1943

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