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Reference:  WLI/100
          
The Secretariat of the World Trade Organization presents its compliments to the Members of
the World Trade Organization and has the honour to inform the Members that, on 3 May 1999, the
Government of Australia accepted the Fifth Protocol to the General Agreement on Trade in Services,
done at Geneva on 27 February 1998.
Furthermore, the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization informs the Members that on
21 May 1999 the Government of Honduras  deposited an instrument of ratification, thereby
recognizing as fully binding the signature affixed by its plenipotentiary to the Fifth Protocol to theGeneral Agreement on Trade in Services on 2 March 1999.
In terms of paragraph 3 of the Protocol and pursuant to the Decision of the Council for Trade
in Services on 15 February 1999, the Protocol entered into force for Australia on 3 May 1999 and for
Honduras on 21 May 1999.
This information is furnished in accordance with paragraph 4 of the Protocol.
The Secretariat of the World Trade Organization avails itself of this opportunity to renew to
the Members the assurances of its highest consideration.
Geneva, 26 May 1999
99-2249 WT/Let/299