MAKING PUBLIC THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION CONVENTION, GENERAL REGULATIONS ANNEXED TO THE INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION CONVENTION, FINAL PROTOCOL TO THE INTERNATIONAL …

WHEREAS, an International Telecommunication
Convention, General Regulations annexed to the International Telecommunication
Convention, Final Protocol to the International Telecommunication Convention,
Additional Protocols to the International Telecommunication Convention, Radio
Regulations annexed to the International Telecommunication Convention and
Additional Radio Regulations, was concluded and signed at Atlantic City on
October 2, 1947, by the authorized representatives of the Philippines and of
other countries;

WHEREAS, the major purposes of this Convention and
the Regulations annexed thereto are to maintain and extend international
cooperation for the improvement and rational use of telecommunication of all
kinds; to promote the development of the technical facilities and their most
efficient operation with a view of improving the efficiency of
telecommunication services, increasing their usefulness and making them, as far
as possible, generally available to the public; and to harmonize the actions of
nations in the attainment of those common ends;

WHEREAS, the Senate of the Congress of the
Philippines, by its Resolution No. 99 adopted on May 22, 1952, did concur in
the ratification by the President of the Philippines of the aforesaid
Convention, together with the Regulations and Protocols annexed thereto, in accordance
with the Constitution of the Philippines;

WHEREAS, the Republic of the Philippines has
formally ratified the said Convention, together with the Regulations and
Potocols annexed thereto, and deposited her instrument of ratification on
November 13, 1952 with the General Secretary of the International Union of
Telecommunication;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Ramon
Magsaysay, President of the Philippines, have caused the said Convention,
together with the Regulations and Protocols annexed thereto, a copy of which is
hereto attached, to be made public to the end that the same and every article
and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the
Republic of the Philippines and the citizens thereof, subject to the
reservation that, for the present, the Republic of the Philippines cannot agree
to be bound by the Telephone and Telegraph Regulations referred to in Paragraph
3 of Article 13 of the aforesaid Convention.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused to be affixed the seal of the Republic of the Philippines.

Done at Manila, this 24th day of October, in the
year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-five, and of the
Independence of the Philippines, the tenth.

RAMON MAGSAYSAY
President of the Philippines

By the President:

FRED RUIZ CASTRO
Executive Secretary