3340 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. XII. Special warehousing charges at Aden. As an exceptional measure, the Administration of Aden is author- ized to collect a charge of 40 centimes per sack for all dispatches warehoused at Aden, provided the said Administration does not receive any territorial or maritime transit charges for such dispatches. XIII. Special chargesfortransshipment. Port of Lisbon. As an exceptional measure, the Portuguese Administration is author- ized to collect 40 centimes per sack for all mails transshipped at the port of Lisbon. XIV. Protocol left open to the countries not represented. The Protocol remains open to the countries of the Union which were not represented at the Congress, in order to permit them to adhere to the Convention and Agreements concluded there, or merely to one or another of them. XV. Protocolleft open to the countries representedfor signaturesand adhesions. The Protocol remains open to those countries whose representatives have today signed only the Convention or only a certain number of the Agreements drawn up by the Congress, for the purpose of permit- ting them to adhere to the other Agreements signed on this date, or to one or another of them. XVI. Periodfornotification of adhesions. The adhesions contemplated in Articles XIV and XV shall be com- municated by the Governments concerned, through diplomatic channels, to the Government of the French Republic, and by the latter to the other States of the Union. The period which is allowed to the said Governments to make such notification will expire on July 1, 1948. XVII. Protocol left open to countries momentarily prevented from adhering to the Convention and to the Agreements. 1. Spain, Morocco (Spanish Zone), and the Whole of the Spanish Colonies, momentarily prevented from adhering to the Convention and to the Agreements, due to a decision of the XII Universal Postal Congress adopted in conformity with the Resolution passed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 12, 1946,[1] may ' United Nations. Resolutions adopted by the GeneralAssembly duringthe Second Part of its First Session from S3 October to 15 December 1946, pp. 63, 64. Lake Success, 1947.
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