Article 10 Ratification of or accession to the present Convention shall ipso facto, and without special notification, involve concomitant and full acceptance of the Agreement of May 4th, 1910, which shall come into force on the same date as the Convention itself in the whole of the territory of the ratifying or acceding Member of the United Nations or State. Article 4 of the above-mentioned Agreement of May 4th, 1910, shall not, however, be invalidated by the preceding provision, but shall remain applicable should any State prefer to accede to that Agreement only. Article 11 The present Convention shall come into force on the thirtieth day after the deposit of two ratifications with the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, Article 12 The present Convention may be denounced by an instrument in writing addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations. The denunciation shall become effective one year after the date of the receipt of the instrument of denunciation by the Secretary-General, and shall operate only in respect of the Member of the United Nations or State which makes it. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify the receipt of any such denunciation to all Members of the United Nations and to the non-member States to which the Secretary-General has communicated a copy of the Convention. Denunciation of the present Convention shall not, ipso facto, involve the concomitant denunciation of the Agreement of May 4, 1910, unless this is expressly stated in the instrument of notification. Article 13 [Deleted] Article 14 A special record shall be kept by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, showing which of the Parties have signed, ratified, acceded to or denounced the present Convention. This record shall be open at all times to any of the Members of the United Nations or any non-member State to which the Secretary-General has communicated a copy of the Convention. It shall be published as often as possible. Article 15 Disputes between the Parties relating to the interpretation or application of this Convention shall, if they cannot be settled by direct negotiation, be referred for decision to the International Court of Justice. In case either or both of the Parties to such a dispute should not be Parties to the Statute of the International Court of Justice, the dispute shall be referred, at the choice of the Parties, either to the International Court of Justice or to arbitration. v Article 16 Upon a request for a revision of the present Convention by five of the signatory or acceding Parties to the Convention, the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations shall call a conference for that purpose. In any event, the Council will consider the desirability of calling a conference at the end of each period of five years.

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