Article 78
Notifications by the Secretary-General
The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall inform all States belonging to any of the four
categories mentioned in article 74:
(a)
of signatures to the present Convention and of the deposit of instruments of ratification or
accession, in accordance with articles 74, 75 and 76;
(b)
of the date on which the present Convention will enter into force, in accordance with article 77.
Article 79
Authentic texts
The original of the present Convention, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian and
Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations,
who shall send certified copies thereof to all States belonging to any of the four categories mentioned in
article 74.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF
the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, being duly authorized thereto by their
respective Governments, have signed the present Convention.
D ONE at Vienna this twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-three.
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