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Whereas, for the better treating of and arranging certain matters which are now in discussion, or which may come into discussion, between the Government of the United Kingdom of

Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the

Governments of certain other Powers and States, relative to the revision of the International

Convention relating to International Exhibitions, open for signature at Paris from 22 November 1928 to 30 April, 1929, it is expedient that fit persons should be invested with Full Power to conduct the said discussion on the part of the

Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: I, Sir Alexander Frederick

Douglas-Home, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most

Noble Order of the Thistle, a Member of Her

Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, etc., etc., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, do hereby certify that Donald Arthur Logan,

Esquire,

Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint

Michael and Saint George, formerly permanent United

Kingdom delegate to the International Exhibitions

Bureau and Francis Bertram Sedgwick-Jell, Esquire, presently permanent United Kingdom delegate to the said Bureau, are by these Presents named, constituted and appointed as Plenipotentiaries and

Representatives having jointly and severally, Full

Power and Authority to agree and conclude with

such
such Plenipotentiaries and Representatives as may be vested with similar Power and Authority on the part of the Governments of the other Powers and

States aforesaid any Treaty, Convention, Agreement,

Protocol or other Instrument that may tend to the attainment of the above-mentioned end, and to sign jointly or severally, for the Government of the

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern

Ireland everything so agreed upon and concluded.

Further, I do hereby certify that whatever things shall be so transacted and concluded by the said

Plenipotentiaries and Representatives shall be agreed to, acknowledged and accepted by the said

Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the fullest manner.

In witness whereof I have signed these

Presents and affixed hereto my Seal.

Signed and sealed at the Foreign and

Conmonwealth Office,

the Tenth day

November, One thousand Nine hundred

and Seventy-
Enragistre

• |18.DEC. 1979

Note No. 219

Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy present their compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and have the honour to refer to the Embassy's Note No. 205 of 29 November 1979 about the Protocol signed on 30 November 1972 amending the Convention of 1928 relating to International

Exhibitions.

Ihe Embassy can now confirm that MM Donald Logan and Francis Sedgwick-Jell were authorised to sign the 1972 protocol on the authority of a Full Power by the Secretary of

State 'without reservation'. The British Government can therefore be regarded as a full party toithis agreement without the need for any further formal act of acceptance.

Her Britannic Majesty's Embassy avail themselves of this opportunity to renew to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the assurances of their highest consideration.

BRITISH EMBASSY

PARIS

18 December 1979