This group includes international transport agreements environmental treaties extradition treaties border crossing treaties treaties of friendship, commerce and navigation intellectual property treaties and penal transfer treaties.

Step 7 The Treaty on Strategic Offensive Arms (START) and the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti Ballistic Missile Systems (ABM)

Treaties or treaty provisions codifying jus cogens rules

The present section examines treaties which exhibit either a controversial, varied or emerging likelihood of applicability during armed conflict, including international transport agreements environmental treaties extradition treaties border crossing treaties treaties of friendship, commerce and navigation intellectual property treaties and penal transfer treaties.

Recognizing with satisfaction that the Antarctic Treaty and the treaties of Tlatelolco, Rarotonga, Bangkok and Pelindaba are gradually freeing the entire southern hemisphere and adjacent areas covered by those treaties from nuclear weapons,

Recognizes the right of States Parties to the NPT to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, in accordance with Article IV thereof, with due regard for Articles I, II and III of the Treaty.

Treaty actions may be undertaken with regard to any treaty deposited with the Secretary General in addition to the 32 treaties being highlighted at this year's treaty event.

Welcomes the continued contribution that the Antarctic Treaty7 and the treaties of Tlatelolco,3 Rarotonga,4 Bangkok5 and Pelindaba6 are making towards freeing the southern hemisphere and adjacent areas covered by those treaties from nuclear weapons

C. The distinction between bilateral and multilateral treaties

(a) With the provisions of articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and

The provisions of article 1 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties have been followed (see also art. 1 of the Vienna Convention on Succession of States in respect of Treaties).

The former category includes mostly multilateral treaties.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, supra note 3, at art.

Under the general law of treaties as codified in the Vienna Convention, article 44, treaty suspension or termination applies only to the treaty as a whole, unless the treaty provides or the parties agree otherwise .

The nomenclature is varied and such treaties are often denominated treaties of establishment or treaties of amity.

An FMCT is a logical and necessary amendment to the NPT as well as to the CTBT.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1155 United Nations Treaty Series 331, art. 73 (23 May 1969).

The Non Proliferation Treaty, with 188 States parties, is truly a global treaty.

1. Reaffirms the importance of all States parties to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsUnited Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485. complying with their obligations under all the articles of the Treaty

Like extradition treaties and border crossing treaties, penal transfer treaties are yet another area of treaty law where private rights and government policy are simultaneously at issue.

It ought to be made clear that articles 20 and 21 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties did not apply to reservations falling under article 19 (c) of the Convention.

recognizing the right of States Parties to the NPT to nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, in accordance with Article IV thereof, with due regard for Articles I, II and III of the Treaty

Draft article 18 Special treaty provisions

Articles of the Covenant 9 14

5. States Parties that make extradition conditional on the existence of a treaty shall

62 31. Treaty on the South East Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty)

METHODS OF WORK OF THE COMMITTEE UNDER ARTICLE 40 OF THE COVENANT AND COOPERATION WITH OTHER UNITED NATIONS BODIES

VCLT, art.

See also Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, supra note 3, art.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, supra note 3, at art.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, supra note 3, at art.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, supra note 3, at art.

(a) That all parties to the treaty under interpretation should also be parties to any treaty relied upon for its interpretation.

First, armed conflict will rarely if ever affect humanitarian law treaties, treaties with express provisions as to their applicability during armed conflict, treaties creating a permanent status or regime, treaty provisions codifying jus cogens norms, non derogable human rights treaties, treaties governing intergovernmental debt and diplomatic conventions.

Owing to legitimate concerns about proliferation outside the Treaty, States parties must urge non parties to accede to it without conditions and without delay.

Conventions, Treaties and Arrangements

1. Reaffirms the importance of all States parties to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsUnited Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485. complying with their obligations under all the articles of the Treaty, and stresses the importance of an effective Treaty review process

Draft Article 7 The operation of treaties on the basis of necessary implication from their object and purpose

2. Welcomes the contributions by the States signatories to the work of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, in particular its efforts to ensure that the Treaty's verification regime will be capable of meeting the verification requirements of the Treaty upon its entry into force, in accordance with article IV of the Treaty

2. Welcomes the contributions by the States signatories to the work of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, in particular its efforts to ensure that the Treaty's verification regime will be capable of meeting the verification requirements of the Treaty upon its entry into force, in accordance with article IV of the Treaty

Welcomes the contributions by the States signatories to the work of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, in particular its efforts to ensure that the Treaty's verification regime will be capable of meeting the verification requirements of the Treaty upon its entry into force, in accordance with article IV of the Treaty

Accountability is a key element of the Treaty regime, which can be made stronger and more transparent through adherence by all States parties to the strengthened safeguards system pursuant to article III of the Treaty, in order to provide assurances of compliance with article II.

Articles of the Covenant 14

Article of the Covenant 11

56 17. African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Pelindaba)