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ARTICLE-53: Treaties conflicting with a peremptory norm of general international law (jus cogens)     [go to this ARTICLE]
... A treaty is void if, at the time of its conclusion, it conflicts with a peremptory norm of general international law. For the purposes of the present Convention, a peremptory norm of general international law is a norm accepted and recognized by the international community of States as a whole as a norm from which no derogation is permitted and which can be modified only by a subsequent norm of general international law having the same character. ...