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United Nations — Treaty Series
1958

Article 6

Persons to whom article 1 of this Convention applies and whose declarations of option are accepted shall be regarded as citizens solely of that Contracting Party for whose citizenship they have opted.

Persons who fail to file a declaration of option within the time-limit specified in article 2 of this Convention shall be regarded as citizens solely of that Contracting Party in whose territory they are resident.

Article 7

Persons who, after their declarations of option for the citizenship of the other Contracting Party have been accepted, continue to reside at their former place of residence, shall have the status of aliens and shall be subject to the same treatment as other aliens.

Article 8

Declarations of option and decisions relating to them in accordance with the provisions of this Convention shall not be subject to any taxes.

Article 9

The Contracting Parties have agreed that, upon its entry into force, this Convention shall, for the information of the persons concerned, be published in the Press of the two Parties.

This Convention shall be ratified and shall enter into force on the date of the exchange of the instruments of ratification, which shall take place at Moscow.

Done at Bucharest, on 4 September 1957, in duplicate, in the Russian and Romanian languages, both texts being equally authentic.

For the Government
of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics:
A. Epishev

For the Government
of the Romanian People's
Republic:
A. Malnasan


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