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Article

IV

Termination
Section 441

This Compact may be terminated as to any one of the Governments of the Marshall Islands or the Federated States of Micronesia
and as to the Government of the United States by mutual agreement
and subject to Section 451.
Section 442

This Compact may be terminated by the Government of the United
States as to the Government of the Marshall Islands or the Federated States of Micronesia subject to Section 452, such termination to be effective on the date specified in the notice of

termination by the Government of the United States but not earlier

than six months following delivery of such notice.
The time
specified in the notice of termination may be extended.
Section 443

This Compact shall be terminated, pursuant to their respective
constitutional processes, by the Government of the Marshall
Islands or the Federated States of Micronesia subject to Section
453 if the people represented by such Government vote in a plebiscite to terminate.
Such Government shall notify the Government
of the United States of its intention to call such a plebiscite
which shall take place not earlier than three months after
delivery of such notice.
The plebiscite shall be administered by
such Government in accordance with its constitutional and legislative processes,

but the Government of the United States may send

its own observers and invite observers from a mutually agreed
party.
If a majority of the valid ballots cast in the plebiscite
favors termination, such Government shall, upon certification of
the results of the plebiscite, give notice of termination to the
Government of the United States, such termination to be effective
on the date specified in such notice but not earlier than three
months following the date of delivery of such notice.
The time
specified in the notice of termination may be extended.

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