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1. The requested Party shall readmit to its territory, at the request of the requesting Party and within the limits of the present Agreement, any third State national or stateless person who does not fulfil or no longer fulfils the conditions for entry into or residence in the territory of the requesting Party, when it can be proven, or on the basis of prima facie evidence it can be plausibly demonstrated, that this person:
1. possesses a valid residence permit issued by the requested Party, or
2. possesses a valid visa, other than a transit visa, issued by the requested Party, or
3. upon entering the territory of the requesting Party possessed a valid residence permit or a valid visa, other than a transit visa, issued by the requested Party, or
4. entered the territory of the requesting Party after having travelled through the territory of the requested Party or resided there.
2. The readmission obligation set forth in paragraph 1 herein does not apply in the event that:
1. the requesting Party issued to the third State national or the stateless person concerned, before or after that person’s entry into its territory, a visa other than a transit visa, or a residence permit with a longer period of validity than that of the visa or the residence permit which was issued by the requested Party, or
2. a visa or a residence permit, issued by the requested Party, has been obtained by means of forged or false documents.