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2. A Member of the Council may give notice of withdrawal with 

 respect to one or more of the territories for the international relations 

 of which it is responsible. When a Member gives notice of its own 

 withdrawal from the Council it shall state to which territory or terri- 

 tories the withdrawal is to apply. In the absence of such a declara- 

 tion, the withdrawal shall be deemed to apply to all the territories for 

 the international relations of which the Member of the Council is 

 responsible except that such withdrawal shall not be deemed to apply 

 to an Associate Member. 



3. Any Member of the Council that gives notice of withdrawal from 

 the Organization shall be deemed to have simultaneously withdrawn 

 from the Council, and this withdrawal shall be deemed to apply to 

 all the territories for the international relations of which the Member 

 concerned is responsible, except that such withdrawal shall not be 

 deemed to apply to an Associate Member. 



Article XIII 



INTERPRETATION AND SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES 



Any dispute regarding the interpretation or application of this 

 Agreement if not settled by the Council shall be referred to a com- 

 mittee composed of one member appointed by each of the parties to 

 the dispute, and in addition an independent chairman chosen by the 

 members of the committee. The recommendations of such a com- 

 mittee, while not binding in character, shall become the basis for 

 renewed consideration by the parties concerned of the matter out of 

 which the disagreement arose. If as the result of this procedure the 

 dispute is not settled, it shall be referred to the International Court of 

 Justice in accordance with the Statute of the Court, [^] unless the 

 parties to the dispute agree to another method of settlement. 



Article XIV 



TERMINATION 



This Agreement shall be considered terminated if and when the 

 number of Members of the Council drops below five unless the remain- 

 ing Members of the Council unanimously decide otherwise. 



Article XV 



certification AND REGISTRATION 



The text of thjs Agreement was originally formulated at Baguio 

 the 26th day of February, one thousand nine hundred and forty eight 

 in the English language. Two copies in the English and French 

 languages of this Agreement as amended shall after approval by the 

 Council or Conference of the Organization, as appropriate, be certi- 

 fied by the Chairman of the Conference or Council of the Organiza- 

 tion and by the Director-General of the Organization. One of these 



1 TS 993 ; 59 Stat. 1055. 



