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Informing the States entitled to become parties to the treaty when the number
of signatures or of instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or acces
sion required for the entry into force of the treaty has been received or
deposited;
(g) Registering the treaty with the Secretariat of the United Nations;
(h) Performing the functions specified in other provisions of the present Conven
tion.
2. In the event of any difference appearing between a State and the depositary
as to the performance of the latter's functions, the depositary shall bring the question
to the attention of the signatory States and the contracting States or, where appro
priate, of the competent organ of the international organization concerned.
tion
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(c)
Article 78. NOTIFICATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS
Except as the treaty or the present Convention otherwise provide, any notifica
or communication to be made by any State under the present Convention shall:
If there is no depositary, be transmitted direct to the States for which it is in
tended, or if there is a depositary, to the latter;
Be considered as having been made by the State in question only upon its
receipt by the State to which it was transmitted or, as the case may be, upon its
receipt by the depositary;
If transmitted to a depositary, be considered as received by the State for which
it was intended only when the latter State has been informed by the depositary
in accordance with article 77, paragraph \(e).
Article 79.
CORRECTION OF ERRORS IN TEXTS
OR IN CERTIFIED COPIES OF TREATIES
1. Where, after the authentication of the text of a treaty, the signatory States
and the contracting States are agreed that it contains an error, the error shall, unless
they decide upon some other means of correction, be corrected:
(à) By having the appropriate correction made in the text and causing the correc
tion to be initialled by duly authorized representatives;
(b) By executing or exchanging an instrument or instruments setting out the correc
tion which it has been agreed to make; or
(c) By executing a corrected text of the whole treaty by the same procedure as in
the case of the original text.
2. Where the treaty is one for which there is a depositary, the latter shall notify
the signatory States and the contracting States of the error and of the proposal to cor
rect it and shall specify an appropriate time-limit within which objection to the pro
posed correction may be raised. If, on the expiry of the time-limit:
(a) No objection has been raised, the depositary shall make and initial the correc
tion in the text and shall execute a proc s-verbal of the rectification of the text
and communicate a copy of it to the parties and to the States entitled to become
parties to the treaty;
(6) An objection has been raised, the depositary shall communicate the objection
to the signatory States and to the contracting States.
3. The rules in paragraphs 1 and 2 apply also where the text has been authen
ticated in two or more languages and it appears that there is a lack of concordance
which the signatory States and the contracting States agree should be corrected.
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