62 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION-JULY 5, 1947 ARTICLE 172. Information. Requests for modification of the Acts. 1. The International Bureau shall hold itself at all times at the disposal of the Executive and Liaison Committee and of the members of the Union, to furnish them, on questions relative to the service, such information as they may require. 2. It examines requests for modification or interpretation of the provisions governing the Union, and makes known the results of consultations. ARTICLE 173. Publications. 1. The International Bureau publishes, with the aid of the docu- ments which are placed at its disposal, a special journal in the English, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, and Russian languages. 2. It publishes, in accordance with the information furnished under the provisions of Article 181 hereafter, an official digest of all informa- tion of general interest concerning the execution of the Convention and its Regulations in each country. 3. Similar digests concerning the execution of the Agreements are published at the request of the Administrations participating in the Agreements. 4. The International Bureau also publishes, with the aid of the information furnished by the Administrations: (a) A digest of information concerning the organization of the Ad- ministrations of the Union and their domestic services; (b) A digest of the rates applied by the Administrations in their domestic services; (c) A list of prohibited articles; (d) A list of steamship lines; (e) A list of distances in kilometers on land routes; (f) A list of distant countries and countries assimilated thereto; (g) A table of equivalents. 5. Any modifications made in the various documents enumerated in Sections 2 to 4 are communicated by circular, bulletin or any suitable means. 6. The documents published by the International Bureau are distributed among the Administrations in proportion to the number of contributive units assigned to each of them by application of Article 27 of the Convention. Additional copies of the documents requested by Administrations are paid for separately, at cost price. 7. The International Bureau is charged with publishing an alpha- betical gazeteer of all the post offices in the world, supplemented by general information printed in the languages listed in Section 1 and mentioning, among other items, the services in which each country Special Journal. Official digest of in- formation. Pot,p. 3396. Other publications. Communication of modifications. Distribution of doc- uments. Ante, p. 3317. Postal gazetteer of world. 3393
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