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Protocol between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [1981] CATSer 8 (2 April 1981)

E103429 - CTS 1981 No. 8

PROTOCOL BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

The Government of Canada and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,

Have agreed as follows:

ARTICLE 1

The Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shall pay to the Government of Canada the sum of three million Canadian dollars (C$3,000,000.00) in full and final settlement of all matters connected with the disintegration of the Soviet satellite "Cosmos-954" in January 1978.

ARTICLE 2

The Government of Canada shall accept the payment of the sum of three million Canadian dollars (C$3,000,000.00) in full and final settlement of all those matters referred to in Article 1 hereof, including the claim advanced by Canada in this respect.

ARTICLE 3

This Protocol shall enter into force on the date of signature.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, duly authorized by their respective Governments, have signed this Protocol.

DONE in duplicate at Moscow this second day of April 1981, in the English, French and Russian languages, all texts being equally authentic.

G. A. H. Pearson

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA

N. S. Ryzhov

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS