Agreement Relating to the “INTELSAT” in the United States

Article XIX. (Signature)

(a) This Agreement shall be open for signature at Washington from
August 20, 1971 until it enters into force, or until a period of nine
months has elapsed, whichever occurs first:

(i)By the Government of any State party to the Interim Agreement;

(ii)By the Government of any other State member of the International
Telecommunication Union.

(b) Any Government signing this Agreement may do so without its
signature being subject to ratification, acceptance or approval or with a
declaration accompanying its signature that it is subject to
ratification, acceptance or approval.

(c) Any State referred to in paragraph (a) of this Article may accede
to this Agreement after it is closed for signature.

(d) No reservation may be made to this Agreement.

Article XX. (Entry into force)

(a) This Agreement shall enter into force sixty days after the date
on which it has been signed not subject to ratification, acceptance or
approval, or has been ratified, accepted, approved or acceded to, by
two-thirds of the States which were parties to the Interim Agreement as
of the date upon which this Agreement is opened for signature, provided
that:

(i)Such two-thirds include parties to the Interim Agreement which
then held, or whose signatories to the Special Agreement then
held, at least two-thirds of the quotas under the Special
Agreement; and

(ii)Such parties or their designated telecommunications entities
have signed the Operating Agreement.

Upon the commencement of such sixty days, the provisions of paragraph 2
of the Annex to the Operating Agreement shall enter into force for the
purposes stated in that paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing
provisions, this Agreement shall not enter into force less than eight
months or more than eighteen months after the date it is opened for
signature.

(b) For a State whose instrument of ratification, acceptance,
approval or accession is deposited after the date this Agreement enters
into force pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Article, this Agreement
shall enter into force on the date of such deposit.

(c) Upon entry into force of this Agreement pursuant to paragraph (a)
of this Article, it may be applied provisionally with respect to any
State whose Government signed it subject to ratification, acceptance or
approval if that Government so requests at the time of signature or at
any time thereafter prior to the entry into force of this Agreement.
Provisional application shall terminate:

(i)Upon deposit of an instrument of ratification, acceptance or
approval of this Agreement by that Government;

(ii)Upon expiration of two years from the date on which this
Agreement enters in to force without having been ratified,
accepted or approved by that Government; or

(iii)Upon notification by that Government, before expiration of the
period mentioned in subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, of its
decision not to ratify, accept or approve this Agreement.

If provisional application terminates pursuant to subparagraph (ii) or
(iii) of this paragraph, the provisions of paragraphs (g) and (l) of
Article XVI of this Agreement shall govern the rights and obligations of
the Party and of its designated Signatory.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article, this Agreement
shall neither enter into force for any State nor be applied provisionally
with respect to any State until the Government of that State or the
telecommunications entity designated pursuant to this Agreement shall
have signed the Operating Agreement.

(e) Upon entry into force, this Agreement shall replace and terminate
the Interim Agreement.

Article XXI. (Miscellaneous provisions)

(a) The official and working languages of INTELSAT shall be English,
French and Spanish.

(b) Internal regulations for the executive organ shall provide for
the prompt distribution to all Parties and Signatories of copies of any
INTELSAT document in accordance with their requests.

(c) Consistent with the provisions of Resolution 1721 (XVI) of the
General Assembly of the United Nations, the executive organ shall send to
the Secretary General of the United Nations, and to the Specialized
Agencies concerned, for their information, an annual report on the
activities of INTELSAT.

Article XXII. (Depositary)

(a) The Government of the United States of America shall be the
Depositary for this Agreement, with which shall be deposited declarations
made pursuant to paragraph (b) of Article XIX of this Agreement,
instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, requests
for provisional application, and notifications of ratification,
acceptance or approval of amendments, of decisions to withdraw from
INTELSAT, or of termination of the provisional application of this
Agreement.

(b) This Agreement, of which the English, French and Spanish texts
are equally authentic, shall be deposited in the archives of the
Depositary. The Depositary shall transmit certified copies of the text of
this Agreement to all Governments that have signed it or deposited
instruments of accession to it, and to the International
Telecommunication Union, and shall notify those Governments, and the
International Telecommunication Union, of signatures, of declarations
made pursuant to paragraph (b) of Article XIX of this Agreement, of the
deposit of instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or
accession, of requests for provisional application, of commencement of
the sixty-day period referred to in paragraph (a) of Article XX of this
Agreement, of the entry into force of this Agreement, of notifications of
ratification, acceptance or approval of amendments, of the entry into
force of amendments, of decisions to withdraw from INTELSAT of
withdrawals and of terminations of provisional application of this
Agreement. Notice of the commencement of the sixty-day period shall be
issued on the first day of that period.

(c) Upon entry into force of this Agreement, the Depositary shall
register it with the Secretariat of the United Nations in accordance with
Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Plenipotentiaries gathered together in the city of
Washington, who have submitted their full powers, found to be in good and
due form, have signed this Agreement.

DONE at Washington, on the 20th day of August, one thousand nine hundred
and seventy one.