3. Any Contracting State or group of Contracting States shall be
entitled to have established by the Director-General other texts in the
language of its choice by arrangement with the Director-General.

4. All such texts shall be annexed to the signed texts of this
Convention.

ARTICLE XVII

1. This Convention shall not in any way affect the provisions of
the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
or membership in the Union created by that Convention.

2. In application of the foregoing paragraph, a declaration has
been annexed to the present Article. This declaration is an integral
part of this Convention for the States bound by the Berne Convention on
1 January 1951, or which have or may become bound to it at a later date.
The signature of this Convention by such States shall also constitute
signature of the said declaration, and ratification, acceptance or
accession by such States shall include the declaration, as well as this
Convention.

ARTICLE XVIII

This Convention shall not abrogate multilateral or bilateral
copyright conventions or arrangements that are or may be in effect
exclusively between two or more American Republics. In the event of
any difference either between the provisions of such existing
conventions or arrangements and the provisions of this Convention, or
between the provisions of this Convention and those of any new