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I-XVI 



The Representatives recommend to their Governments that reports, 

 studies and all other documentation, including any specific proposal 

 or draft recommendation, which any participating Government may 

 desire to place before the next Consultative Meeting, shall be for- 

 warded through diplomatic channels so as to reach all Governments 

 entitled to participate in that Consultative Meeting, at least one month 

 prior to the Meeting, except in circumstances of urgency. 



[STATEMENTS] 



In respect of Recommendation I-IX, the French Delegation stated 

 that the French Government would wish to give the word "object" a 

 fairly broad significance. 



In respect of Recommendation I-XII, the United Kingdom Delega- 

 tion stated that it considered that Goverments should, in consulting 

 together with a view to reaching agreement on further practical meas- 

 ures for improving postal communications in the Treaty area, give 

 consideration to the following measures : 



(a) accept for transmission to the Antarctic by all available 

 means of transport correspondence or mails, other than philatelic 

 mail, addressed to Antarctic stations occupied by other partici- 

 pating countries; 



(b) invite the International Bureau of the Universal Postal 

 Union to advise other postal administrations to send correspond- 

 ence addressed to an Antarctic station to the postal administration 

 of the country occupying the station for onward transmission ; 



(c) recognize as auly_ prepaid correspondence originating in an 

 Antarctic station occupied By another participating country and 

 prepaid in postage stamps issued by that country ; 



(d) accept such prepaid correspondence for transmission from 

 the Antarctic by all available means of transport to the most con- 

 venient office of exchange in a participating country; 



(e) reforward the correspondence from the office of exchange to 

 its destination in accordance with the provisions of the Universal 

 Postal Convention, [*] particularly those concerning transit pay- 

 ments ; 



( f ) put their mail services, subject to prepayment in the normal 

 way, at the disposal of the personnel at any Antarctic station 

 occupied by another participating country which is for any reason 

 prevented from using the stamps of that country for the prepay- 

 ment of its correspondence. 



In respect of Recommendation I-XIII, the Chilean Delegation 

 stated that it understood that the declaration in no way implied a 

 change in Article V of the Antarctic Treaty, and the French Delega- 

 tion stated that it considered that the information exchanged should 

 also be brought to the notice of the International Atomic Energy 

 Agency when Governments considered this was appropriate. 



In respect of Recommendation I-XIV, the New Zealand Delegation 

 expressed the hope that any consultations pursuant to paragraphs 2 

 and 3 would take place in a capital where New Zealand had diplomatic 

 representation. 



s TIAS 4202 ; 10 UST 413. 



