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ARTICLE-2: Use of terms [go to this ARTICLE]
... (c) “'full powers”' means a document emanating
from the competent authority of a State designating
a person or persons to represent the State for negotiating,
adopting or authenticating the text of a treaty, for expressing
the consent of the State to be bound by a treaty, or for accomplishing
any other act with respect to a treaty; ...
ARTICLE-7: Full powers [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. A person is considered as representing a State
for the purpose of adopting or authenticating the text
of a treaty or for the purpose of expressing the consent
of the State to be bound by a treaty if: ...
ARTICLE-10: Authentication of the text [go to this ARTICLE]
... Authentication of the text ...
ARTICLE-24: Entry into force [go to this ARTICLE]
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4. The provisions of a treaty regulating the authentication
of its text, the establishment of the consent of States
to be bound by the treaty, the manner or date of its
entry into force, reservations, the functions of the depositary
and other matters arising necessarily before the entry into force
of the treaty apply from the time of the adoption of its text. ...
ARTICLE-33: Interpretation of treaties authenticated in two
or more languages [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. When a treaty has been authenticated in two
or more languages, the text is equally authoritative
in each language, unless the treaty provides or the parties
agree that, in case of divergence, a particular text shall prevail.
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2. A version of the treaty in a language other than one
of those in which the text was authenticated shall be
considered an authentic text only if the treaty so provides
or the parties so agree.
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2. A version of the treaty in a language other than one
of those in which the text was authenticated shall be
considered an authentic text only if the treaty so provides
or the parties so agree.
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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-79: Correction of errors in texts or in certified
copies of treaties [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Where, after the authentication of the text
of a treaty, the signatory States and the contracting
States are agreed that it contains an error, the error
shall, unless they decide upon some other means of correction, be corrected: ...
... 3. The rules in paragraphs 1 and 2 apply also where the text
has been authenticated in two or more languages and it appears that there is
a lack of concordance which the signatory States and the contracting States
agree should be corrected.
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ARTICLE-85: Authentic texts [go to this ARTICLE]
... Authentic texts ...
... The original of the present Convention, of which
the Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts
are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General
of the United Nations. ...