To ensure the proper coordination of SAR operations, the Parties should keep each other fully and promptly informed. If the RCC of a State of a Party considers that assistance from the RCCs of a State of an another Party is needed, it may request such assistance.

If the RCC of a State of a Party receives information that human life is, or is believed to be, in distress within the SAR region of the State of one of the other Parties, that RCC shall, without delay, inform the RCC of the State of the other Party (-ies) concerned. Assistance to any aircraft either in distress or believed to be in distress, and to survivors of an aircraft accident within the SAR region of any Party, shall be rendered regardless of the State of registry or status of the aircraft, or the nationality or status of the persons in the aircraft, or the circumstances in which the aircraft or persons are found.