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Rule 42:

(1)

Summary Minutes

Provisional summary minutes of the Plenary meetings of the Conference and of the meetings of the Main Committee shall be drawn up by the International Bureau and shall be made available as soon as possible after the closing of the Conference to all speakers, who shall, within two months after the making available of such minutes, inform the International Bureau of any suggestions for changes in the minutes of their own interventions.

(2) The final summary minutes shall be published in due course by the International Bureau.

Rule 43: Languages of Documents and Summary Minutes

(1) Any written proposal shall be presented to the Secretariat in Arabic, English, French, Russian or Spanish. Such proposal shall be distributed by the Secretariat in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

(2) Reports of the committees and working groups shall be distributed in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Information documents of the Secretariat shall be distributed in English and French.

(3)(a) Provisional summary minutes shall be drawn up in the language used by the speaker if the speaker has used English or French; if the speaker has used another language, his intervention shall be rendered in English or French as may be decided by the International Bureau.

French.

(b)

The final summary minutes shall be made available in English and

(c) The text of the Treaty and of any recommendation or resolution, agreed statement or final act adopted by the Conference shall be made available in the languages in which it is adopted.

CHAPTER VIII: OPEN AND CLOSED MEETINGS

Rule 44: Meetings of the Conference and of the Main Committee

The Plenary meetings of the Conference and the meetings of the Main Committee shall be open to the public unless the Conference, meeting in Plenary, or the Main Committee, as the case may be, decides otherwise.

Rule 45: Meetings of Other Committees and of Working Groups

The meetings of any committee other than the Main Committee and the meetings of any working group shall be open only to the members of the committee or working group concerned and the Secretariat.