that the consent of the General Assembly was required in order to provide the financial means necessary to hold a conference under United Nation auspices. The president interpreted Article 45 officially to mean that the Contracting States, would if necessary, be entitled to take action independently of the United Nations making themselves financial 250 provisions for holding the Conference. The same must be assumed to be true of the present Convention. Article 42 Notifications by the Secretary-General of the United Nations The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall inform all Members of the United Nations and non-Member States referred to in article 35: (a) Of signatures, ratifications and accessions in accordance with article 35; (b) Of declarations and notifications in accordance with article 36; (c) Of reservations and withdrawals in accordance with article 38; (d) Of the date on which this Convention will come into force in accordance with article 39; (e) Of denunciations and notifications in accordance with article 40; (f) Of requests for revision in accordance with article 41. This article reproduces the exact text of the relevant articles in the Refugee Convention (except for the notification regarding the geographical application of the Refugee Convention). This Article is self-explanatory. APPENDIX I Draft Protocol Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons Prepared by the Ad Hoc Committee on Statelessness and Related Problems During its First Session The Contracting States, Considering that the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees dated - deals only with refugees, whether stateless or not, who are the special concern of the United Nations, as evinced in numerous resolutions of the General Assembly, and Considering, moreover, that there are many stateless persons not covered by the said Convention who do not enjoy any national protection and, pending a more special solution of the problem of such persons, it appears desirable to improve the status of these persons; Now therefore undertake to apply, mutatis mutandis, the provisions of Articles 2 to 4, 6 to 11, 12 (para. 1), 13, 14 (para. 1), 15 to 23, 24 (paras. 1 and 2), 27, 29 and 31 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, to stateless persons to whom that Convention does not apply. This Protocol shall not apply to a person who was a member of a German minority in a country outside Germany and who is in Germany. The standard final clauses follow. 250 SR.35, pp. 33-34.