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 hi 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 5-th day of September 2006.