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United Nations — Treaty Series
1958

3. The Contracting Parties shall, within eighteen months from the date of the entry into force of this Convention, tansmit to each other information on such declarations of option for their citizenship as they have accepted.

Article 6

Persons who fail to file a declaration 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 whose declarations of option for the citizenship of the other Contracting Party have been accepted may retain their former place of residence; such persons shall have the status of aliens.

Article 8

The declarations provided for in article 2 of this Convention and the decisions relating to them shall not be subject to any taxes.

Article 9

1. This Convention shall be ratified. The exchange of the instruments of ratification shall take place at Moscow.

2. The Convention shall enter into force on the thirtieth day from the date of the exchange of the instruments of ratification.

3. After the exchange of the instruments of ratification, the Contracting Parties shall, for the information of the persons concerned, publish the text of this Convention in the Press.

Done at Budapest, on 24 August 1957, in duplicate, in the Russian and Hungarian languages, both texts being equally authentic.

For the Government
of the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics:
Gromov

For the Government
of the Hungarian People's
Republic:
Sik Endre

No. 4608