МЕЖДУ ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВОМ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ И ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВОМ ЮЖНО-АФРИКАНСКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ О СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВЕ В ОБЛАСТИ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ И ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ КОСМИЧЕСКОГО ПРОСТРАНСТВА В МИРНЫХ ЦЕЛЯХ. Соглашение. Правительство РФ. 05.09.06

Article 17
                           Final provisions

     1.  The  Parties  shall notify each other in written form through
diplomatic  channels  of  the  fulfilment of their respective domestic
procedures  for the entry into force of this Agreement. This Agreement
shall  enter  into  force  on  the  date  of  receipt of the last such
notification.
     2.  This  Agreement  is  concluded for a period of ten years. Its
effect  shall  be  automatically  extended  for  a subsequent ten-year
period,  unless  either Party notifies the other Party in written form
through  diplomatic  channels  of  its  intention  to  terminate  this
Agreement  twelve  months  prior  to  the  expiration  of  the initial
ten-year  period. In the period following its automatic extension this
Agreement  may  be  terminated  by either Party by a notice in written
form sent to the other Party through diplomatic channels twelve months
in advance of the date of termination.
     3. Additional extension of this Agreement shall be the subject of
consultations between the Parties, which shall commence not later than
twelve  months  prior to the expiration of the period of its automatic
extension.
     4.  This  Agreement  may  be  amended  by mutual agreement of the
Parties in written form.
     5. This Agreement shall not prejudice existing agreements between
cooperating  organizations  concluded prior to the entry into force of
this Agreement.
     6.  In the event of termination of this Agreement, its provisions
shall  continue  to  apply  to  all  unfinished  activities within the
framework  of  this Agreement, unless the Parties agree otherwise. The
termination  of  this  Agreement  shall not serve as the basis for the
revision  or  termination  of  obligations  of  a  financial  or other
contractual  nature still in force and shall not affect the rights and
obligations of legal and natural persons, which have arisen before its
termination.
     In  witness  whereof,  the  undersigned,  being  duly  authorized
thereto by their respective Governments, have signed this Agreement in
duplicate, each in the Russian and English languages, both texts being
equally authentic.

     Done at Cape Town on this 5th day of September 2006.


                                                                 Annex

                                                      to the Agreement
                                 between the Government of the Russian
                                         Federation and the Government
                                       of the Republic of South Africa
                                           on Cooperation in the Field
                                   of the Exploration and Use of Outer
                                           Space for Peaceful Purposes