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suggestions and general recommendations based on the examination of reports
and information received from the States Parties. Such suggestions and general
recommendations shall be included in the report of the Committee together
with comments, if any, from States Parties.

Article 40
Conference of States Parties

1. The States Parties shall meet regularly in a Conference of States Parties
in order to consider any matter with regard to the implementation of the
present Convention.

2. No later than six months after the entry into force of the present
Convention, the Conference of States Parties shall be convened by the
Secretary-General of the United Nations. The subsequent meetings shall be
convened by the Secretary-General biennially or upon the decision of the
Conference of States Parties.

Article 41
Depositary

The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall be the depositary of
the present Convention.

Article 42
Signature

The present Convention shall be open for signature by all States and by
regional integration organizations at United Nations Headquarters in New York
as of 30 March 2007.

Article 43
Consent to be bound

The present Convention shall be subject to ratification by signatory
States and to formal confirmation by signatory regional integration
organizations. It shall be open for accession by any State or regional
integration organization which has not signed the Convention.

Article 44
Regional integration organizations

1. “Regional integration organization” shall mean an organization
constituted by sovereign States of a given region, to which its member States
have transferred competence in respect of matters governed by the present
Convention. Such organizations shall declare, in their instruments of formal
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