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ARTICLE 88 1. Any member of the United Nations, not a signatory to the present Treaty, which is at war with Italy, and Albania, may accede to the Treaty and upon accession shall be deemed to be an Associated Power for the purposes of the Treaty. 2. Instruments of accession shall be deposited with the Government of the French Republic and shall take effect upon deposit. article 89 The provisions of the present Treaty shall not confer any rights or benefits on any State named in the Preamble as one of the Allied and Associated Powers or on its nationals until such State becomes a party to the Treaty by deposit of its instrument of ratification. article 90 The present Treaty, of which the French, English and Russian texts are authentic, shall be ratified by the Allied and Associated Powers. It shall also be ratified by Italy. It shall come into force immediately upon the deposit of ratifications by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, by the United States of America, and by France. The instruments of ratification shall, in the shortest time possible, be deposited with the Government of the French Republic. With respect to each Allied or Associated Power whose instrument of ratification is thereafter deposited, the Treaty shall come into force upon the date of deposit. The present Treaty shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the French Republic, which shall furnish certified copies to each of the signatory States. In faith whereof the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have affixed thereto their seals. Done in the city of Paris in the French, English, Russian and Italian languages, this tenth day of February, One Thousand Nine Hundred And Forty-seven. LIST OF ANNEXES I. Maps (see separate volume). 11. Franco-Italian Frontier: Detailed description of the sections of the frontier to which the modifications set out in Article 2 apply. 111. Guarantees in connection with Mont Cenis and the Tenda-Briga district. IV. Provisions agreed upon by the Austrian and Italian Governments on September 5, 1946. V. Water supply for Gorizia and vicinity. VI. Permanent Statute of the Free Territory of Trieste. VII. Instrument for the Provisional Regime of the Free Territory of Trieste. VIII. Instrument for the Free Port of Trieste. IX. Technical dispositions regarding the Free Territory of Trieste. X. Economic and financial provisions relating to the Free Territory of Trieste. XI. Joint declaration by the Governments of the Soviet Union, of the United Kingdom, of the United States of America, and of France concerning Italian territorial possessions in Africa.