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(c) Exempt from all customs duties in respect of articles imported or exported by the United Nations for its official use. It is understood, however. that articles imported under such exemption will not be sold in Switzerland except under conditions agreed with the Swiss Federal Council;
(d) Exempt from all prohibitions and restrictions on imports and exports in respect of articles intended for the official use of the United Nations, on the understanding that the United Nations will use its good offices to obtain if necessary the consent of any other State which may be concerned, and subject to the provisions of general international conventions and public health measures;
(e) Exempt from all customs duties, prohibitions and restrictions on imports and exports in respect of its publications.
Section 6. The United Nations does not propose, as a general rule, to claim exemption from indirect taxes or sales taxes included in the price of movable or immovable property. Its intention is to claim this exemption only in the case of important purchases effected by the United Nations for its official purposes where such taxes are included in the price. In cases of this kind, the Swiss Federal Council will make appropriate administrative arrangements for the remission or return of the amount of such taxes.
Article III. Facilities in respect of communications
Section 7. The United Nations shall enjoy in Switzerland for its official communications treatment not less favourable than that accorded by the Swiss Federal Council to any Government including its diplomatic mission in the matter of priorities, rates and taxes on mails. cables, telegrams, radio- grams, telephotos, telephone and other communications; and press rates for information to the press and radio in conformity with the International Convention on Telecommunications. No censorship shall be applied to the official correspondence and other official communications of the United Nations.
Section 8. The United Nations shall have the right to use codes and to despatch and receive its correspondence by courier or in bags, which shall have the same immunities and privileges as diplomatic couriers and bags.
Article IV. The representatives of Members of the United Nations
Section 9. Representatives of Members of the United Nations on its principal and subsidiary organs and at conferences convened by the United Nations, shall, while exercising their functions and during their journey to and from the place of meeting, enjoy the following privileges and immunities:
(a) Immunity from personal arrest or detention and from seizure of their personal baggage, and, in respect of words spoken or written and acts done by them in their capacity as representatives immunity from legal process of every kind;
(b) Inviolability for all papers and documents;
(c) The right to use codes and to receive papers or correspondence by courier or in sealed bags;
(d) Exemption in respect of themselves and their spouses from im- migration restrictions, alien registration or national service obligations:
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(e) The same facilities in respect of currency or exchange regulations as are accorded to representatives of foreign governments on temporary official missions;
(f) The same immunities and facilities in respect of their personal baggage as are accorded to diplomatic agents;
(g) Such other privileges, immunities and facilities not inconsistent with the foregoing as diplomatic agents enjoy, except that they shall have no right to claim exemption from customs duties on articles imported (other- wise than as part of their personal baggage) or from indirect taxes or sales
taxes.
Section 10. In order to secure for the representatives of Members of the United Nations on its principal and subsidiary organs and at conferences convened by the United Nations, complete freedom of speech and indepen- dence in the discharge of their duties, the immunity from legal process in respect of words spoken or written and acts done by them in discharging their duties shall continue to be accorded, notwithstanding that the persons concerned are no longer the representatives of Members of the United Nations.
Section 11. If the incidence of any form of taxation depends upon residence in Switzerland, periods during which the representatives of Mem- bers of the United Nations on its principal and subsidairy organs and at conferences convened by the United Nations are present in Switzerland for the discharge of their duties shall not be considered as periods of residence. Section 12. Privileges and immunities are accorded to the representa- tives of Members of the United Nations not for the personal benefit of the individuals themselves, but in order to safeguard the independent exercise of their functions in connexion with the United Nations. Consequently, a Member of the United Nations not only has the right but is under a duty to waive the immunity of its representative in any case where in the opinion of that Member the immunity would impede the course of justice, and it can be waived without prejudice to the purpose for which the immunity is accorded.
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Section 13. In this article the expression representatives " shall be deemed to include all delegates, deputy delegates, advisors, technical ex- perts and secretaries of delegations.
Article V. Officials of the United Nations
Sections 14. The Secretary-General will from time to time make known to the Swiss Federal Council, in the same manner as to the Governments of Member States, the names of those officials to whom the provisions of this article and article VII shall apply.
Section 15. Officials of the United Nations shall:
(a) Be immune from legal process in respect of words spoken or written and acts performed by them in their official capacity;
(b) Be exempt from taxation on the salaries and emoluments paid to them by the United Nations;
(c) Be immune from national service obligations. subject to the special provisions contained in the Annex to the present Arrangement concerning officials of Swiss nationality;
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