Protocol on Scientific and Technological Cooperation

The Government of (name of country) and the Government of (name of country), hereinafter referred to as the Contracting Parties,

Desiring to strengthen the ties of friendship and to foster scientific and technological cooperation between the Contracting Parties,

Having regard to the Agreement on the development of economic, industrial, scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries signed on 23 November 19___, and hereinafter referred to as the Basic Agreement,

HAVE AGREED as follows:

Article 1 . The Contracting Parties shall encourage and develop their cooperation in science and technology on the basis of equality and mutual advantage.

Article 2 . The Contracting Parties recognize that cooperation would be possible in the following areas: […]

The Contracting Parties may, by mutual agreement, add any other area in which cooperation may appear useful.

Article 3 . Each country shall defray the travel costs of its university professors, experts, specialists, trainees, etc.

Subsistence costs shall be defrayed by the host country in the manner to be agreed upon between the Contracting Parties.

Article 4. The implementation of this Protocol shall be periodically reviewed by the Joint Commission referred to in article 4 of the Basic Agreement.

Article 5 . This Protocol shall enter into force on the date of its signature.

It shall be valid for a period of five years.

It shall be automatically extended for successive periods of two years, unless one of the Contracting Parties announces in writing six months before the date of expiry its intention to denounce the Protocol.

This Protocol may be amended by agreement between the Contracting Parties.

In the event of denunciation, the Contracting Parties shall take all necessary action to ensure the continuation and completion of all projects already undertaken under this Protocol.

DONE AT ___ on 23 November 19___, in two original copies, each in the French and Dutch languages, both texts being equally authentic.

For the Government of

For the Government of

……………….

(signed)

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ADDITIONAL

PROTOCOL

Additional protocol to the convention

His Majesty the King of (name of country),

His Excellency the President of (name of country),

Considering that the proportions of capital defined in article 1 of the Convention between the Government of ... and the Government of ... regulating the operation of the designated railway network, signed at____ on 17 April l9___ , concern the distribution of the initial capital,

HAVE AGREED to conclude an Additional Protocol and to that end have appointed as their plenipotentiaries: His Majesty the King of ... , Mr. X., Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of ... , His Excellency the President of ... , Mr. Y., Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of ... ,who, having communicated their full powers, found in good and due form,

HAVE AGREED on the following provisions:

Article 1. The capital of the railway company established in implementation of the Convention between ... of 17 April 19_ has been subscribed at the rate of 36.75 per cent by ... and 63.25 per cent by …

Article 2. This Protocol shall be ratified or approved. The instruments of ratification or approval shall be deposited in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ... . This Protocol shall enter into force on the date of the deposition of the last instrument of ratification or approval.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the duly appointed plenipotentiaries have affixed their signatures to this Protocol.

DONE AT __ on 21 June 19___, in duplicate, in the French and English languages.

For the Kingdom of

(signed)

For the Republic of

(signed)

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OPTIONAL PROTOCOL

OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

The States Parties to the present Protocol,

Considering that in order further to achieve the purposes of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (hereinafter referred to as the Covenant) and the implementation of its provisions it would be appropriate to enable the Human Rights Committee set up in part IV of the Covenant (hereinafter referred to as the Committee) to receive and consider, as provided in the present Protocol, communications from individuals claiming to be victims of violations of any of the rights set forth in the Covenant,

HAVE AGREED as follows:

Article 1

A State Party to the Covenant that becomes a party to the present Protocol recognizes the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications from individuals subject to its jurisdiction who claim to be victims of a violation by that State

Party of any of the rights set forth in the Covenant. No communication shall be received by the Committee if it concerns a State Party to the Covenant which is not a party to the present Protocol.

Article 2

Subject to the provisions of article 1, individuals who claim that any of their rights enumerated in the Covenant have been violated and who have exhausted all available domestic remedies may submit a written communication to the Committee for consideration.

Article 3

The Committee shall consider inadmissible any communication under the present Protocol which is anonymous, or which it considers to be an abuse of the right of submission of such communications or to be incompatible with the provisions of the Covenant.

Article 4

1. Subject to the provisions of article 3, the Committee shall bring any communications submitted to it under the present Protocol to the attention of the State Party to the present Protocol alleged to be violating any provision of the Covenant.

2. Within six months, the receiving State shall submit to the Committee written explanations or statements clarifying the matter and the remedy, if any, that may have been taken by that State.

Article 5

1. The Committee shall consider communications received under the present Protocol in the light of all written information made available to it by the individual and by the State Party concerned.

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Article 6

The Committee shall include in its annual report under article 45 of the Covenant a summary of its activities under the present Protocol.

Article 7

Pending the achievement of the objectives of resolution 1514(XV) adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 14 December 1960 concerning the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the provisions of the present Protocol shall in no way limit the right of petition granted to these peoples by the Charter of the United Nations and other international conventions and instruments under the United Nations and its specialized agencies.

Article 8

1. The present Protocol is open for signature by any State which has signed the Covenant.

2. The present Protocol is subject to ratification by any State which has ratified or acceded to the Covenant. Instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. [...]

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FINAL PROTOCOL

(SOLE ARTICLE)