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PREAMBLE     [go to this PREAMBLE]
... Affirming that the rules of customary international law will continue to govern questions not regulated by the provisions of the present Convention, ...


ARTICLE-2: Use of terms     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) “treaty” means an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever its particular designation; ...


ARTICLE-7: Full powers     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of performing all acts relating to the conclusion of a treaty; ...


ARTICLE-30: Application of successive treaties relating to the same subject-matter     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (b) as between a State party to both treaties and a State party to only one of the treaties, the treaty to which both States are parties governs their mutual rights and obligations. ...


ARTICLE-40: Amendment of multilateral treaties     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. Unless the treaty otherwise provides, the amendment of multilateral treaties shall be governed by the following paragraphs. ...


ARTICLE-59: Termination or suspension of the operation of a treaty implied by conclusion of a later treaty     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) it appears from the later treaty or is otherwise established that the parties intended that the matter should be governed by that treaty; or ...


ARTICLE-67: Instruments for declaring invalid, terminating, withdrawing from or suspending the operation of a treaty     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 2. Any act declaring invalid, terminating, withdrawing from or suspending the operation of a treaty pursuant to the provisions of the treaty or of paragraphs 2 or 3 of article 65 shall be carried out through an instrument communicated to the other parties. If the instrument is not signed by the Head of State, Head of Government or Minister for Foreign Affairs, the representative of the State communicating it may be called upon to produce full powers. ...


ARTICLE-85: Authentic texts     [go to this ARTICLE]
... IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, being duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed the present Convention. ...