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ARTICLE-77: Functions of depositaries     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) keeping custody of the original text of the treaty and of any full powers delivered to the depositary; ...
... (b) preparing certified copies of the original text and preparing any further text of the treaty in such additional languages as may be required by the treaty and transmitting them to the parties and to the States entitled to become parties to the treaty; ...


ARTICLE-79: Correction of errors in texts or in certified copies of treaties     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (c) by executing a corrected text of the whole treaty by the same procedure as in the case of the original text. ...


ARTICLE-85: Authentic texts     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The original of the present Convention, of which the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. ...