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Agreement, such a territory shall, upon sponsorship through a declaration by the responsible contracting party establishing the above-mentioned fact be deemed to be a Contracting Party".
The Sub-Committee agreed to recommend a consequential change in Article XXXI (now.proposed XXXIII) which should be amended to read:
"A Government not party to this Agreement or a Government acting on behalf of a senarete customa territory K may accede to this Agreement on its own behalf or on behalf of that territory on terms to bo agreed between such Government and the contracting parties,"
The Sub-Committee wishes to draw the attention of the Tariff Agreement Committee to the fact that the use of the term "contract- ing parties" in. this Article implies the need for unanimous decision on the accession of new parties to the Agreement.
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X Note: Subsequent to the meeting of the Sub-Committee the United Kingdom Delegate suggested that at this point the following words should be inserted: "possessing full autonomy, in the conduct of its external commercial relations and of the other matters provided for by this Agreement".