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(g) below) which are the responsibility of the

Convention or the

for

Signatory

under

the

Operating Agreement. In doing so, it should act

in accordance with the interests of the entity.

(e) The SAR Government should be allowed to continue

to communicate directly with INMARSAT in the same

ways as the Hong Kong Government.

(£) Any such entity should be allowed to continue to

communicate directly with INMARSAT in all

the SAR's use of the

matters,

connected with

INMARSAT space segment, other than those matters

which are the reserved

responsibility of

the

Party or Signatory under the Convention and the

Operating Agreement.

(g) The Hong Kong SAR telecommunications authority

should continue to act as a routing organization

for the

purposes of submitting applications to

the Organization in respect of Hong Kong registered ships, in accordance with Articles XIV

and XV of the Operating Agreement and previous

practice. If in future a similar procedure were adopted by the Organization for the application

of approval of aircraft

land mobile

mobile earth

stations, the authority should similarly act as a

routing

and

in organization

respect

of

such

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applications of the SAR.

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