United Nations Treaty Series/Volume 2/2/12
No. 12
ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN
and
FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA
Agreement relating to Radiotelegraphic Communication. Signed at Khartoum, on 2 November 1939. Came into force on 15 October 1939 (Article VI).
English and French official texts communicated by the Permanent United Kingdom Representative to the United Nations. The filing and recording took place on 8 April 1947.
No. 12. AGREEMENT RELATING TO RADIOTELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BETWEEN FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA AND THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN.
The Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa of the one part and the Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan of the other part;
Desiring to make provision for better communication between French Equatorial Africa on the one hand and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan on the other hand;
Have agreed as follows:
Article I
Reciprocal radiotelegraphic communication is established between the Wireless Stations mentioned below, with the object of the exclusive exchange of official and private correspondence between the two Territories:
Abeche — El Fasher
Article II
The charge per word is fixed at ninety-five 1 (0.95) centimes (gold) whatever the nature of the correspondence.
Article III
The amount of the charges will be divided between the Territories concerned on the following basis:—
| Sudan: | ||
| Frs. Cs. | Frs. Cs. | |
| Wireless charge | 0.20 | |
| Sudan terminal | 0.25 | |
| 0.45 | ||
| French Equatorial Africa: | ||
| Wireless charge | 0.20 | |
| French Equatorial Africa terminal | 0.30 | |
| 0.50 | ||
| Total | 0.95 | |
Article IV
The accounts will be established and regulated according to the provisions of Article 88[1] of the International Telegraph Convention (Revision of Madrid 1932) between the Department of Posts, Telegraphs, Telephones and Wireless of French Equatorial Africa at Brazzaville and the Departments of Posts and Telegraphs of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan at Khartoum.
Article V
The services will be daily and established according to a time-table fixed between the Heads of the Departments mentioned in Article IV in the respective Territories.
Article VI
The present agreement will come into force from the fifteenth of October, 1939, after accord established by radiogram between the two Contracting Parties, which will sign and affix their seals, subsequently, on the agreement written in English and French respectively.
It may be denounced by either of the Contracting Parties at any time by means of six months' notice given to the other party.
This one will have in both languages the same validity.
| Done at Khartoum, the second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine.
The Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan G. S. Symes |
Done at Brazzaville, the.........day of.........................one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine.
The Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa P. Boisson |
- ↑ League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. CLI, page 191.