respect of the damage as will restore the person, natural or juridical, State or
international organization on whose behalf the claim is presented to the
condition which would have existed if the damage had not occurred.
Article XIII
Unless the claimant State and the State from which compensation is due under
this Convention agree on another form of compensation, the compensation shall
be paid in the currency of the claimant State or, if that State so requests, in the
currency of the State from which compensation is due.
Article XIV
If no settlement of a claim is arrived at through diplomatic negotiations as
provided for in Article IX, within one year from the date on which the claimant
State notifies the launching State that it has submitted the documentation of its
claim, the parties concerned shall establish a Claims Commission at the request
of either party.
Article XV
1. The Claims Commission shall be composed of three members: one appointed
by the claimant State, one appointed by the launching State and the third
member, the Chairman, to be chosen by both parties jointly. Each party shall
make its appointment within two months of the request for the establishment of
the Claims Commission.
2. If no agreement is reached on the choice of the Chairman within four months
of the request for the establishment of the Commission, either party may request
the Secretary-General of the United Nations to appoint the Chairman within a
further period of two months.
Article XVI
1. If one of the parties does not make its appointment within the stipulated
period, the Chairman shall, at the request of the other party, constitute a singlemember Claims Commission.
2. Any vacancy which may arise in the Commission for whatever reason shall be
filled by the same procedure adopted for the original appointment.
3. The Commission shall determine its own procedure.
4. The Commission shall determine the place or places where it shall sit and all
other administrative mattters.
5. Except in the case of decisions and awards by a single-member Commission,
all decisions and awards of the Commission shall be by majority vote.