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- The Contracting Parties agree to provide aid to each other as necessary with a view to preventing unlawful seizure of aircraft and other unlawful acts against the safety of aircraft, airports and air navigation facilities and any other threat to aviation security.
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- Each Contracting Party agrees to observe non-discriminatory and generally applicable security provisions required by the other Contracting Party for entry into the territory of the other Contracting Party and to take adequate measures to inspect passengers and their carry-on items. Each Contracting Party shall also give sympathetic consideration to any request from the other Contracting Party for specials security measures for its aircraft or passengers to meet a particular threat.
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- The Contracting Parties shall act consistently with applicable aviation security provisions established by the International Civil Aviation Organization. Should a Contracting Party depart from such provisions, the other Contracting Party may request consultations with that Contracting Party. Unless otherwise agreed by the Contracting Parties, such consultations shall begin within a period of sixty (60) days of the date of receipt of such a request. Failure to reach a satisfactory agreement could constitute grounds for the application of Article 14 of this Agreement.
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- The Contracting Parties shall act in conformity with the provisions of the Convention on offenses and certain other acts committed on board aircraft, signed at Tokyo on September 14, 1963, the Convention for the suppression of unlawful seizure of aircraft, sighed at The Hague on December 16, 1970, and the Convention for the suppression of unlawful acts against the safety of civil aviation, signed at Montreal on September 23, 1971, insofar as the Contracting Parties are both party to these Conventions.
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- When an incident, or threat of an incident, or unlawful seizure of aircraft or other unlawful acts against the safety of aircraft, airports and air navigation facilities occurs, the Contracting Parties shall assist each other by facilitating communications intended to terminate rapidly and safely such incident or threat thereof.
