59 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-AIR SERVICES TRANSIT AGREEMENT-DEC. 7 , 1944 1695 be settled by negotiation, the provisions of Chapter XVIII of the above-mentioned Convention shall be applicable in the same manner as provided therein with reference to any disagreement relating to the interpretation or application of the above-mentioned Convention. ARTICLE III This Agreement shall remain in force as long as the above-men- Duration of Agree- tioned Convention; provided, however, that any contracting State, a party to the present Agreement, may denounce it on one year's notice given by it to the Government of the United States of America, which shall at once inform all other contracting States of such notice and withdrawal. ARTICLE IV Pending the coming into force of the above-mentioned Conven- tion, all references to it herein, other than those contained in Article II, Section 2, and Article V, shall be deemed to be references to the Interim Agreement on International Civil Aviation drawn up at Chicago on December 7,1944; and references to the International Civil A n te, p. 1516. Aviation Organization, the Assembly, and the Council shall be deemed to be references to the Provisional International Civil Aviation Or- ganization, the Interim Assembly, and Interim Council, respectively. ARTICLE V For the purposes of this Agreement, "territory" shall be defined "Territory." as in Article 2 of the above-mentioned Convention. ARTICLE VI SIGNATURES AND ACCEPTANCES OF AGREEMENT The undersigned delegates to the International Civil Aviation Con- ference, convened in Chicago on November 1, 1944, have affixed their signatures to this Agreement with the understanding that the Gov- ernment of the United States of America shall be informed at the earliest possible date by each of the governments on whose behalf the Agreement has been signed whether signature on its behalf shall constitute an acceptance of the Agreement by that government and an obligation binding upon it. Any State a member of the International Civil Aviation Organi- zation may accept the present Agreement as an obligation binding upon it by notification of its acceptance to the Government of the United States, and such acceptance shall become effective upon the date of the receipt of such notification by that Government. This Agreement shall come into force as between contracting States upon its acceptance by each of them. Thereafter it shall become binding as to each other State indicating its acceptance to the Govern- ment of the United States on the date of the receipt of the acceptance by that Government. The Government of the United States shall inform all signatory and accepting States of the date of all acceptances
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