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ARTICLE-29: Fiscal charges     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. Nothing in the above paragraph shall prevent the application to refugees of the laws and regulations concerning charges in respect of the issue to aliens of administrative documents including identity papers. ...


ARTICLE-30: Transfer of assets     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. A Contracting State shall give sympathetic consideration to the application of refugees for permission to transfer assets wherever they may be and which are necessary for their resettlement in another country to which they have been admitted. ...


ARTICLE-35: Co-operation of the national authorities with the United Nations     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. The Contracting States undertake to co-operate with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or any other agency of the United Nations which may succeed it, in the exercise of its functions, and shall in particular facilitate its duty of supervising the application of the provisions of this Convention. ...


ARTICLE-36: Information on national legislation     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The Contracting States shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the United Nations the laws and regulations which they may adopt to ensure the application of this Convention. ...


ARTICLE-38: Settlement of disputes     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Any dispute between Parties to this Convention relating to its interpretation or application, which cannot be settled by other means, shall be referred to the International Court of Justice at the request of any one of the parties to the dispute. ...


ARTICLE-40: Territorial application clause     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Territorial application clause ...
... 3. With respect to those territories to which this Convention is not extended at the time of signature, ratification or accession, each State concerned shall consider the possibility of taking the necessary steps in order to extend the application of this Convention to such territories, subject, where necessary for constitutional reasons, to the consent of the Governments of such territories. ...