The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify him of the deposit by the Government of Saint Lucia, on May 30, 1996, of its instrument of accession to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), done at Washington on June 19, 1970.
The instrument of accession contains the following declaration:
"Pursuant to Article 64(5) of the said Treaty, the Government of Saint Lucia does not consider itself bound by Article 59 of the said Treaty."
The said Treaty will enter into force, with respect to Saint Lucia, on August 30, 1996.
June 11, 1996