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ARTICLE-2: Use of terms     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (d) “'reservation”' means a unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State, when signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to a treaty, whereby it purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain provisions of the treaty in their application to that State; ...


ARTICLE-3: International agreements not within the scope of the present Convention     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) the legal force of such agreements; ...


ARTICLE-8: Subsequent confirmation of an act performed without authorization     [go to this ARTICLE]
... An act relating to the conclusion of a treaty performed by a person who cannot be considered under article 7 as authorized to represent a State for that purpose is without legal effect unless afterwards confirmed by that State. ...


ARTICLE-21: Legal effects of reservations and of objections to reservations     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Legal effects of reservations and of objections to reservations ...


ARTICLE-51: Coercion of a representative of a State     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The expression of a State's consent to be bound by a treaty which has been procured by the coercion of its representative through acts or threats directed against him shall be without any legal effect. ...


ARTICLE-63: Severance of diplomatic or consular relations     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The severance of diplomatic or consular relations between parties to a treaty does not affect the legal relations established between them by the treaty except in so far as the existence of diplomatic or consular relations is indispensable for the application of the treaty. ...


ARTICLE-69: Consequences of the invalidity of a treaty     [go to this ARTICLE]
... 1. A treaty the invalidity of which is established under the present Convention is void. The provisions of a void treaty have no legal force. ...


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. ...


ARTICLE-72: Consequences of the suspension of the operation of a treaty     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (b) does not otherwise affect the legal relations between the parties established by the treaty. ...