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of its external commercial relations and of the other matters provided for by this Charter and whose admission is approved by the Conference, upon acceptance of the Charter on its behalf by the competent Member in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 99, or, in the case of a territory in respect of which the Charter has been accepted under paragraph 1 of Article 99, upon its becoming thus autonomous. 4. Any separate customs territory admitted to the Organization under paragraph 3 of this Article which is accorded full voting rights shall thereupon be a Member of the Organization. 5. The Conference shall determine the conditions upon which membership rights and obligations shall be extended to Trust Territories administered by the United Nations and to the Free Territory of Trieste. Article 69 Functions The Organization shall perform the functions provided for elsewhere in this Charter. In addition the Organization shall have the following functions : (a) To collect, analyse and publish information relating to international trade, including information relating t© commercial policy, business practices, commodity problems and industrial and general economic development: (b) To encourage and facilitate consultation among Members on all questions relating to the provisions of this Charter; (c) To undertake studies on, make recommendations for, and promote international agreement on, measures designed (i) To assure just and equitable treatment for foreign nationals and enterprises ; (ii) To expand the volume and to improve the bases of international trade, including measures designed to facilitate commercial arbitration and avoidance of double taxation ; and (iii) Generally to achieve any of the objectives set forth in Article 1 ;

Article 69. Paragraph (c) (i). The deletion of the mention of specific classes of such nationals and enterprises should not be taken as indicating that these classes are not covered in the above broad language. Thus such language would cover treatment of, for example, commercial travellers, and foreign creditors in bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization.