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724 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeNotes by the Secretariat1. At its third session, the Ad Hoc Committee decided to refrain from consideringthis provision of the draft protocol in the interest of consistency and of making full useof the time available to it, as this article and the final clauses in general were consideredstandard in international instruments and depended on the outcome of the negotiations onsimilar provisions of the convention (see A/AC.254/14, para. 16).Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.2/Rev.3)Sixth session: 6-17 December 1999“Article 24“Languages and depositary“1. The Secretary-General of the United Nations is designated depositary ofthe present Protocol.“2. The original of the present Protocol, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English,French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with theSecretary-General of the United Nations.“IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned plenipotentiaries, being duly authorizedthereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Protocol.”Notes by the Secretariat2. The text of article 24 is identical to the text of the corresponding provision of thedraft convention and is reproduced in accordance with a decision made by the Ad HocCommittee at its sixth session and without prejudice to its content, which was still undernegotiation. Only necessary editorial changes have been made to the text. For issues relatedto this provision, see article 41 of the convention in part one, article 20 of the traffickingin persons protocol in part two and article 25 of the migrants protocol in part three.3. The Ad Hoc Committee considered article 24 of the draft protocol at its eleventhsession. The article was finalized, without further amendment, and approved by the AdHoc Committee at its twelfth session (see the final text of the protocol, as included in thereport of the Ad Hoc Committee (A/55/383/Add.2, sect. III, draft resolution, annex), thatwas submitted to the General Assembly for adoption pursuant to resolutions 54/126 of 17December 1999 and 55/25 of 15 November 2000).