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any other activity connected with the registration of citizens of the sending country and the delivery of documents to them.

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 and to register marriages where both parties to the marriage are citizens of the sending country.

The provisions of paragraph 3 above shall also apply to the registration of the dissolution of marriages.

The foregoing shall not, however, exempt the persons concerned from the obligation to make such declarations or to effect such registration as may be required by local statutes.

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

1. To receive and certify declarations from citizens of the sending State;

2. To draw up, attest and accept for safekeeping the wills and other unilateral instruments and declarations of citizens of the sending State and to accept for safekeeping the property and documents of such citizens, provided that this is not contrary to the laws of the receiving country;

3. To draw up or certify agreements concluded between citizens of the sending State, provided that such agreements are not contrary to the laws of the receiving country. A consul may not draw up or certify any agreement concerning the establishment or alienation of property rights to buildings and land 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 either of the sending or of the receiving country;

5. To certify the signatures, or documents of any kind, of citizens of the country which the consul represents; to legalize documents issued by the authorities or officials of the sending State or the receiving country, and to certify copies of such documents;

6. To certify translations of documents issued by the authorities and officials of the sending State or the receiving country;

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