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2. Consuls shall issue to their own and to foreign citizens and to stateless persons the necessary visas for entry into and exit from the sending State.
3. Consuls shall, where authorized to do so by the laws of the sending country, be entitled to issue certificates of the birth or death of citizens of their country. The registration of the birth or death of such citizens shall be notified to the competent authorities of the receiving country.

1. Consuls shall, where authorized to do so by the laws of the sending country, be entitled to register marriages where both parties to the marriage are citizens of the sending country.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 above shall also apply to the registration of the dissolution of marriages.
3. The marriage or dissolution of the marriage registered by the consul shall be notified to the competent authorities of the receiving country.

Consuls shall be entitled to carry on the following activities at consulates, at their residences, at the residences of citizens of the sending country and on board vessels or aircraft flying that country's flag:

1. To receive, draw up and certify declarations from citizens of the sending country;
2. To draw up, attest and accept for safekeeping the wills of citizens of the sending country;
3. To draw up or certify agreements concluded between citizens of the sending country, and to certify unilateral instruments provided that such agreements and instruments are not contrary to the laws of the receiving country. A consul may not draw up or certify any agreement or instrument establishing or transferring rights to immovable property situated in the receiving country;
4. To draw up or certify agreements between citizens of the sending country and citizens of the receiving country, provided that such agreements relate exclusively to interests situated in the territory of the State which the consul represents or to transactions to be carried out in the territory of that State, and provided that such agreements are not contrary to the laws of the receiving country;
5. To legalize documents issued by the authorities or officials of the sending or the receiving country, and to certify copies or translations of such documents and extracts therefrom;
6. To certify the signatures, on documents of any kind, of citizens of the country which the consul represents, provided that the contents of such documents are not contrary to the laws of the receiving country;

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