64. That letter confirms in the clearest manner the Greek Government's explanation of its motive in introducing a "territorial status" reservation into its declaration under the optional clause. But it also shows that this reservation was originally conceived of and formulated as a specific and autonomous reservation. In the actual declaration the second reservation, "disputes relating to its rights of sovereignty over its ports and lines of communication", was tacked on to, and specifically "included" in, the first reservation of "disputes relating to territorial status". The reason, no doubt, was that the disputes covered by the second reservation were realized to becases of "disputes relating to the territorial status of Greece". At any rate, this change in the presentation of the first and second reservations only served to emphasize both the generic and the autonomous character of Greece's reservation of disputes relating to its "territorial status". Another point which may be deduced from M. Politis's letter is that he clearly did not think a reservation of disputes for the settlement of which treaties provided another procedure would necessarily cover al1 disputes relating to Greece's "territorial status"; otherwise, he would not have recornrnended the inclusion of two separate, autonomous reservations to cover specifically each of these two categories of disputes. 65. In response to a question put by the Court on 9 October 1978, the Greek Government subrnitted certain interna1 documents relating to the preparation of Greece's instrument of accession to the General Act. These documents included a first draft of theprojet de loi to be presented to the Greek Chambre des députés for ratification of the instrument of accession, the text of theprojet de loi as finally presented, and the exposé des motifs explaining the projet de loi to the Chambre des députés; al1 of the documents being accompanied by certified translations into the French language. 66. The Court considers that the intention to make an autonomous reservation as to matters relating to territorial status is put beyond doubt by the explanation of the reservation which was given by the Government to the Chambre des députés in the exposé des motifs accompanying the projet de loi. The final paragraph of this document stated: "We havejudged it necessary to proceed to that accession subject to certain reservations. The latter are those enumerated in Article 2 of the projet de loi submitted, and consist, on the one hand, of the repetition of one of the two reservations we formulated when we accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Permanent Court-reservation (b)-the other being established in Article 29 of the Act; and, on the other hand, of the reservations enumerated in Article 39 of the Act."