aircraft, their passengers and crew, airports or air navigation facilities occurs, the Contracting Parties shall assist each other by facilitating communications and other appropriate measures intended to terminate rapidly and safely such incident or threat thereof.
6. Each Contracting Party shall take such measures, as it may find practicable, to ensure that an aircraft subject to an act of unlawful seizure or other acts of unlawful interference, which has landed in the territory of the respective State is detained on the ground unless its departure is necessitated by the overriding duty to protect human life. Wherever practicable, such measures shall be taken on the basis of mutual consultations.
7. Should one Contracting Party have problems with regard to the aviation security provisions of this Article, the aeronautical authority of the State of that Contracting Party may request immediate consultations with the aeronautical authority of the State of the other Contracting Party. Such consultations shall begin within a period of thirty (30) days from the date of the receipt of request.
Article 15
Aviation safety
1. Each Contracting Party may at any time request consultations concerning the safety standards maintained by the other Contracting Party in areas relating to aeronautical facilities, flight crew, aircraft and the operations of the designated airlines. Such consultations shall begin within thirty (30) days from the date of the receipt of the request.
2. If, following such consultations mentioned in paragraph 1 of this Article, one Contracting Party finds that the other Contracting Party does not effectively maintain and administer safety standards in the areas that meet the standards established at that time pursuant to the Convention, the other Contracting Party shall be informed of such findings and of the steps considered necessary to conform with the International Civil Aviation Organization standards, and shall take appropriate corrective action within an agreed time period.
3. Pursuant to Article 16 of the Convention, it is further agreed that any aircraft operated by, or on behalf of an airline of the State of one Contracting Party, on service to or from the territory of the State of the other Contracting Party, may, while within the territory of the State of that Contracting Party be the subject of a search by the authorized representatives of the other Contracting Party, provided this does not cause unreasonable delay in the operation of the aircraft. Notwithstanding the obligations mentioned in Article 33 of the Convention, the purpose of such search is to verify the validity of the relevant aircraft documentation, the licensing of its crew, and that the aircraft equipment and the condition of the aircraft conform to the standards established at that time pursuant to the Convention.
4. When urgent action is essential to ensure the aviation safety of the designated airlines, each Contracting Party reserves the right to immediately suspend or vary the operating authorization of a designated airline or airlines of the State of the other Contracting Party.
5. Any action by one Contracting Party in accordance with paragraph 4 above shall be discontinued once the basis for the taking of that action ceases to exist.
6. With reference to paragraph 2 above, if it is determined that one Contracting Party remains in non-compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization standards when the agreed time period has lapsed, the Secretary General of International Civil Aviation Organization should be advised thereof. The latter should also be advised of the subsequent satisfactory resolution of the situation.
Article 16
Consultations
1. From time to time there shall be the consultations between the aeronautical authorities
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