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ARTICLE-7: Full powers     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (b) it appears from the practice of the States concerned or from other circumstances that their intention was to consider that person as representing the State for such purposes and to dispense with full powers. ...


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-48: Error     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply if the State in question contributed by its own conduct to the error or if the circumstances were such as to put that State on notice of a possible error. ...


ARTICLE-62: Fundamental change of circumstances     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Fundamental change of circumstances ...
... 1. A fundamental change of circumstances which has occurred with regard to those existing at the time of the conclusion of a treaty, and which was not foreseen by the parties, may not be invoked as a ground for terminating or withdrawing from the treaty unless: ...
... (a) the existence of those circumstances constituted an essential basis of the consent of the parties to be bound by the treaty; and ...
... 2. A fundamental change of circumstances may not be invoked as a ground for terminating or withdrawing from a treaty: ...
... 3. If, under the foregoing paragraphs, a party may invoke a fundamental change of circumstances as a ground for terminating or withdrawing from a treaty it may also invoke the change as a ground for suspending the operation of the treaty. ...