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ARTICLE-41: Agreements to modify multilateral treaties between certain of the parties only     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (ii) does not relate to a provision, derogation from which is incompatible with the effective execution of the object and purpose of the treaty as a whole. ...


ARTICLE-61: Supervening impossibility of performance     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. A party may invoke the impossibility of performing a treaty as a ground for terminating or withdrawing from it if the impossibility results from the permanent disappearance or destruction of an object indispensable for the execution of the treaty. If the impossibility is temporary, it may be invoked only as a ground for suspending the operation of the treaty. ...


ARTICLE-70: Consequences of the termination of a treaty     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (b) does not affect any right, obligation or legal situation of the parties created through the execution of the treaty prior to its termination. ...


ARTICLE-71: Consequences of the invalidity of a treaty which conflict with a peremptory norm of general international law     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (b) does not affect any right, obligation or legal situation of the parties created through the execution of the treaty prior to its termination; provided that those rights, obligations or situations may thereafter be maintained only to the extent that their maintenance is not in itself in conflict with the new peremptory norm of general international law. ...