The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to communicate, at the request of the Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Office of the United Nations and to the other International Organizations in Geneva, the following contents of a letter of the latter, dated October 3, 1990, and received on that date:
"[T]hrough the accession of the German Democratic Republic, to the Federal Republic of Germany with effect from 3 October 1990, the two German states have united to form one sovereign state, which as a single member of the World Intellectual Property Organization remains bound by the provisions of the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization. As from the date of unification, the Federal Republic of Germany will act in the World Intellectual Property Organization under the designation of 'Germany'."
October 12, 1990