2.1 Introduction/Background of the Convention

The post-war redesign: the 1944 Chicago Conference (52 states; the aviation's future as the peace's question) — the "freedoms of the air" debate's theatre: the US's commercial- multilateral-liberal vision vs the UK's regulated-international authority proposal — the compromise that shaped the age: the Chicago Convention 1944 (the sovereignty's reaffirmation + the ICAO's creation + the scheduled traffic's consent-regime) with the two supplementary agreements (the International Air Services Transit Agreement — the two technical freedoms; the International Air Transport Agreement — the five commercial freedoms, the latter's few parties) — and the bilateral system's birth (the Bermuda-type agreements' lineage) as the convention's practical child. Nepal: a party to the Chicago Convention (the 1960s' accession era — the ICAO's membership, Unit 6.1).