03.12.24. (Tue.)

Question 1

When did the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties done and entered into force?

Answer 1

Adopted: 23 May 1969
Entered into force: 27 January 1980

Question 2

“Pacta nun servanda” meaning

Answer 2

“Agreements must be kept”

Question 3

Article 1 of VCLT

Answer 3

Article 1: Scope of the present Convention

The present Convention applies to treaties between States.

Question 4

Article 2 of the VCLT

Answer 4

Article 2

Use of terms

1. For the purposes of the present Convention:

(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;

(b) “ratification”, “acceptance”, “approval” and “accession” mean in each case the international act so named whereby a State establishes on the international plane its consent to be bound by a treaty;

(c) “full powers” means a document emanating from the competent authority of a State designating a
person or persons to represent the State for negotiating, adopting or authenticating the text of a treaty,
for expressing the consent of the State to be bound by a treaty, or for accomplishing any other act with
respect to a treaty;

(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;

(e) the treaty;
“negotiating State” means a State which took part in the drawing up and adoption of the text of

(f) “contracting State” means a State which has consented to be bound by the treaty, whether or not
the treaty has entered into force;

(g) force;
“party” means a State which has consented to be bound by the treaty and for which the treaty is in

(h) “third State” means a State not a party to the treaty;

(i) “international organization” means an intergovernmental organization.

2. The provisions of paragraph 1 regarding the use of terms in the present Convention are without
   prejudice to the use of those terms or to the meanings which may be given to them in the internal law of
   any State.