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the northern borger of China and west of the eastern border of China, toget with all those leiritories in the Pacific Ocean, the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean situated wholly or partly in the area bounded by longitude 100° East, latitude 45' lor,itude 130° West, latitude 38° North to the point of its intersection ich the eastern coast of China. /western coast of the Republic of Kore.. and from that point a straight line to Taipei, and thence

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the point of intersection of the eastern coast of Viet Nam orth. For the purpose of implementing the objectives of this

: shall also be considered as being in the Region./"*

(Words underline to be added and words in square brackets to be deleted).

The CCL may wish to. amendment of Article

the proposed new version c.

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e that since the Commission's sole purpose in requesting was "to include China in the definition of the Region", ticle I(a) follows the present text as closely as possible.

It may further be note that certain amendments to Article I(a), also extending the geographical scope of the Agement, were approved by the Council in 1967. These amendments were not considered to involve any new obligations and, therefore, entered into force for all the parties to the Agreement on the thirtieth day after their acceptance by two-thirds of the Contracting Governments, as provided in the first sentence of Article IX.4.

*These amendments are also reproduced in Annex I of document CCLM 43/3(a).