Article 11
The provisions of the present Convention are supplemented by Regulations, which shall have the same force and go into effect at the same time as the Convention.
The provisions of the present Convention and of the Regulations relating thereto may at any time be modified by the High Contracting Parties by common consent. Conferences of plenipotentiaries having power to modify the Convention and the Regulations, shall take place from time to time; each conference shall fix the time and place of the next meeting.
Article 12
Such conferences shall be composed of delegates of the Governments of the contracting countries.
In the deliberations each country shall have but one vote.
If a Government adheres to the Convention for its colonies, possessions or protectorates, subsequent conferences may decide that such colonies, possessions or protectorates, or a part thereof, shall be considered as forming a country as regards the application of the preceding paragraph. But the number of votes at the disposal of one Government, including its colonies, possessions or protectorates, shall in no case exceed six.
The following shall be considered as forming a single country for the application of the present Article:
- German East Africa
- German Southwest Africa
- Kamerun
- Togo Land
- German Protectorates in the Pacific
- Alaska
- Hawaii and the other American possessions in Polynesia
- The Philippine Islands
- Porto Rico and the American possessions in the Antilles
- The Panama Canal Zone
- The Belgian Congo
- The Spanish Colony of the Gulf of Guinea
- French East Africa
- French Equatorial Africa
- Indo-China
- Madagascar
- Tunis
- The Union of South Africa
- The Australian Federation
- Canada
- British India
- New Zealand
- Eritrea
- Italian Somaliland
- Chosen, Formosa, Japanese Sakhalin and the leased territory of Kwantung
- The Dutch Indies
- The Colony of Curaçao
- Portuguese West Africa
- Portuguese East Africa and the Portuguese possessions in Asia
- Russian Central Asia (littoral of the Caspian Sea)
- Bokhara
- Khiva
- Western Siberia (littoral of the Arctic Ocean)
- Eastern Siberia (littoral of the Pacific Ocean)
Article 13
The International Bureau of the Telegraph Union shall be charged with collecting, coordinating and publishing information of every kind relating
