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ARTICLE-2: Use of terms [go to this ARTICLE]
... (d) “'reservation”' means a unilateral statement,
however phrased or named, made by a State, when signing,
ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to a treaty,
whereby it purports to exclude or to modify the legal
effect of certain provisions of the treaty in their application to
that State; ...
ARTICLE-3: International agreements not within the scope
of the present Convention [go to this ARTICLE]
... (b) the application to them of any of the rules set forth
in the present Convention to which they would be subject
under international law independently of the Convention; ...
... (c) the application of the Convention to the relations of
States as between themselves under international agreements
to which other subjects of international law are also
parties. ...
ARTICLE-4: Non-retroactivity of the present Convention [go to this ARTICLE]
... Without prejudice to the application of any rules
set forth in the present Convention to which treaties
would be subject under international law independently
of the Convention, the Convention applies only to treaties which
are concluded by States after the entry into force of the present Convention
with regard to such States. ...
ARTICLE-20: Acceptance of and objection to reservations [go to this ARTICLE]
...
2. When it appears from the limited number of the negotiating
States and the object and purpose of a treaty that the
application of the treaty in its entirety between all
the parties is an essential condition of the consent
of each one to be bound by the treaty, a reservation requires acceptance
by all the parties.
...
ARTICLE-25: Provisional application [go to this ARTICLE]
... Provisional application ...
... 2. Unless the treaty otherwise provides or the negotiating
States have otherwise agreed, the provisional application
of a treaty or a part of a treaty with respect to a State
shall be terminated if that State notifies the other
States between which the treaty is being applied provisionally of its
intention not to become a party to the treaty. ...
ARTICLE-30: Application of successive treaties relating to
the same subject-matter [go to this ARTICLE]
... 5. Paragraph 4 is without prejudice to article 41, or to any
question of the termination or suspension of the operation
of a treaty under article 60 or to any question of responsibility
which may arise for a State from the conclusion or application
of a treaty the provisions of which are incompatible
with its obligations towards another State under another treaty. ...
ARTICLE-31: General rule of interpretation [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) any subsequent agreement between the parties regarding
the interpretation of the treaty or the application
of its provisions; ...
... (b) any subsequent practice in the application of the treaty
which establishes the agreement of the parties regarding
its interpretation; ...
ARTICLE-32: Supplementary means of interpretation [go to this ARTICLE]
... Recourse may be had to supplementary means of
interpretation, including the preparatory work of the
treaty and the circumstances of its conclusion, in order
to confirm the meaning resulting from the application of article 31, or
to determine the meaning when the interpretation according to article 31: ...
ARTICLE-33: Interpretation of treaties authenticated in two
or more languages [go to this ARTICLE]
...
4. Except where a particular text prevails in accordance
with paragraph 1, when a comparison of the authentic
texts discloses a difference of meaning which the application
of articles 31 and 32 does not remove, the meaning which
best reconciles the texts, having regard to the object and purpose of the
treaty, shall be adopted. ...
ARTICLE-42: Validity and continuance in force of treaties [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. The validity of a treaty or of the consent
of a State to be bound by a treaty may be impeached only
through the application of the present Convention.
...
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2. The termination of a treaty, its denunciation or the
withdrawal of a party, may take place only as a result
of the application of the provisions of the treaty or
of the present Convention. The same rule applies to suspension
of the operation of a treaty. ...
ARTICLE-43: Obligations imposed by international law independently of a treaty [go to this ARTICLE]
... The invalidity, termination or denunciation of
a treaty, the withdrawal of a party from it, or the suspension
of its operation, as a result of the application of the
present Convention or of the provisions of the treaty, shall
not in any way impair the duty of any State to fulfil any obligation embodied
in the treaty to which it would be subject under international law independently
of the treaty. ...
ARTICLE-44: Separability of treaty provisions [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) the said clauses are separable from the remainder of
the treaty with regard to their application; ...
ARTICLE-63: Severance of diplomatic or consular relations [go to this ARTICLE]
... The severance of diplomatic or consular relations
between parties to a treaty does not affect the legal
relations established between them by the treaty except
in so far as the existence of diplomatic or consular relations
is indispensable for the application of the treaty. ...
ARTICLE-66: Procedures for judicial settlement, arbitration
and conciliation [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) any one of the parties to a dispute concerning the application
or the interpretation of articles 53 or 64 may, by
a written application, submit it to the International
Court of Justice for a decision unless the parties
by common consent agree to submit the dispute to arbitration; ...
... (a) any one of the parties to a dispute concerning the application
or the interpretation of articles 53 or 64 may, by
a written application, submit it to the International
Court of Justice for a decision unless the parties
by common consent agree to submit the dispute to arbitration; ...
... (b) any one of the parties to a dispute concerning the application
or the interpretation of any of the other articles
in Part V of the present Convention may set in motion
the procedure specified in the Annex to the Convention
by submitting a request to that effect to the Secretary-General
of the United Nations. ...