Overeenkomst betreffende de vrijwillige bijdragen bestemd voor de uitvoering van het project tot het behoud van de tempels van Philae

At least two months before a session of the Executive Committee whose agenda will include consideration of the semi-annual plan of financial operations provided for in paragraph 2 of resolution II, adopted by the Executive Committee at the close of its fifth session the Government of the United Arab Republic shall send the Organization a report indicating, with reference to the clauses of the works contract and the progress of the operations, the payments it will have to meet during the semi-annual period in question. The Organization shall be entitled to request any further information it may consider necessary.

In the light of all the information so received and of the situation of the Trust Fund, taking into account the receipts expected during the semi-annual period in question, the Director-General shall establish the above-mentioned plan of financial operations indicating by type of currency, the proportion of the payments falling due under contract which can be met by the Trust Fund. This document shall be communicated as expeditiously as possible to the Government of the United Arab Republic for observations, and transmitted to the Executive Committee for approval.

The amounts provided for on the schedule of payments approved by the Executive Committee shall be placed at the disposal of the Government of the United Arab Republic fifteen days before the due date of each payment, in accordance with the practical arrangements agreed upon by the said Government and the Director-General.

Within three months after the expiry of each semi-annual period, the Government of the United Arab Republic shall send the Organization a financial report, reviewing both the work carried out and the payments made during the semi-annual period covered, and indicating any changes which may have been made in the initial estimates. After obtaining, where appropriate, any additional information that may be necessary, the Director-General shall transmit this report to the Executive Committee for consideration at its next session.

Within six months after the completion of the work of each stage of the project, the Government of the United Arab Republic shall forward to the Organization a technical report and a financial report covering all the work done and payments made which relate to that stage. These reports shall be transmitted by the Director-General to the Executive Committee in the same conditions as the semi-annual reports.

1. Every Contracting Member State or Associate Member of Unesco undertakes to contribute to the execution of the project to save the temples of Philae by making a contribution in kind or by paying into the Trust Fund established for this purpose by the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, hereinafter referred to as “the Director-General”, the amounts set forth in the Annex to this Agreement, in the currency, on the dates and under the conditions specified in the said Annex.
2. The Director-General will not transmit any amount that may have been deposited with him to the competent authorities of the United Arab Republic, nor will he take any steps to make contributions in kind available to these authorities, until such time as the Government of the United Arab Republic has finally given an assurance that it will undertake the operations to save the temples of Philae and take the necessary measures for their satisfactory completion and that it will conclude for that purpose, with one or more contractors, the contract for the work described in the specifications drawn up by the Ministry of Culture of the United Arab Republic (Salvage of the Temples of Philae).

1. The Director-General will obtain all the necessary particulars regarding the payment dates with which the United Arab Republic will have to reckon in executing the contract referred to in Article I, paragraph 2. He will also receive periodical progress reports.
2. He will pay the amounts which he receives in conformity with the terms of Article I, paragraph 1, and in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Agreement between Unesco and the Government of the United Arab Republic concerning the safeguarding of the temples of Philae to the appropriate authorities of the United Arab Republic, taking the time-table of payments due and the progress of work into account.

The Director-General will communicate a periodical information report, at least every six months, to the Contracting Member States and Associate Members of Unesco concerning the implementation of this Agreement and the progress of the operations to save the temples of Philae.

The Agreement will bear the date of 19 December 1970 and will remain open to the signature of all the Member States and Associate Members of Unesco.

This Agreement, except for its annex, is drawn up in Arabic, English, French, Russian and Spanish, all five texts being equally authentic.

This Agreement shall enter into force for each Contracting Member State or Associate Member of Unesco upon its signature or, if it is signed subject to ratification or acceptance, on the date of the deposit of an instrument of ratification or acceptance with the Director-General.

The Director-General will hold at the disposal of Contracting Member States and Associate Members of Unesco the sums which the latter have contributed under this Agreement if the Government of the United Arab Republic does not conclude the contract for the work described in the specifications drawn up by the Minister of Culture (Salvage of the Temples of Philae).

The Director-General shall inform the Member States and Associate Members of Unesco of the signature affixed to this Agreement, as well as of the deposit of the instruments of ratification or acceptance mentioned in Article V of this Agreement.

In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations, this Agreement will be registered at the United Nations Secretariat, at the request of the Director-General.