To that end, article 25 makes a legal reservation, which is absolute insofar as jurisdiction can only be determined directly in advance by the law.

He would prefer to retain the paragraph as it stood at any rate, the reference to taking a decision should be kept.

In accordance with international law and the relevant provisions of the Convention on the Law of Treaties, it was the responsibility of the State making a reservation to determine whether its reservation was consistent with the purpose and object of the treaty.

3.1.2 Definition of specified reservations

Given the general character of these reservations a final assessment as to its admissibility under international law cannot be made without further clarification.

The reference to a decision being taken must be retained in paragraph 4.

According to the said reservation the Government of Qatar enters a general reservation in respect of any provisions of the Convention that conflict with the provisions of the Islamic Sharia.

(b) The need to provide for a limited period of detention, if not already provided by legislation, and the necessity of applying the restrictive period, where provided for, strictly, to ensure that the detention is not prolonged unreasonably

God willing, shall not lack.

22. Although human rights treaty monitoring bodies were entitled to formulate comments or recommendations regarding reservations, they nevertheless did not have the power to set aside a reservation or make legal determinations regarding the validity of a reservation.

Malaysia considered, however, that that article was an example of a specified reservation in conformity with draft guideline 3.1.2 on definition of specified reservations, since it expressly authorized reservations to specific provisions and stipulated the conditions that had to be met for the formulation of a reservation.

The State party should ensure that a judge reviews all detentions to determine if they are legal and that all cases of detention are brought before a judge for that purpose, in conformity with the provisions of article 9 of the Covenant.

When article 21, paragraph 3, stated that the provisions to which the reservation related did not apply as between the objecting State and the reserving State to the extent of the reservation, it was referring to reservations permitted under article 19.

It supported those members of the Commission who believed that the Vienna regime did not provide for a procedure for formulating reservations and objections thereto nor did it provide a method for defining the admissibility of reservations.

The objecting State would thus notify the reserving State of its position in relation to the legal status of the reservation.

The presumption of freedom to formulate a reservation was different in substance from the presumption of the validity of a reservation.

Among those retained was section 6 of the 1979 Constitution which vests the judicial power in the courts.

At its 2859th meeting, held on 28 July 2005, the Commission decided to send draft guidelines 3.1 (Freedom to formulate reservations), 3.1.1 (Reservations expressly prohibited by the treaty), 3.1.2 (Definition of specified reservations), 3.1.3 (Reservations implicitly permitted by the treaty) and 3.1.4 (Non specified reservations authorized by the treaty) to the Drafting Committee.

44. With regard to the topic of reservations to treaties, he agreed that the Vienna regime should be preserved, as the rules which it contained could be regarded as having acquired a customary value.

Half of those seats were reserved for women, as stipulated in article 84 of the Constitution.

(a) The reservation is prohibited by the treaty

3. Calls upon those States that continue to maintain reservations to the 1925 Geneva Protocol to withdraw them

15. Called upon, all States to ensure that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention and encourages States parties to consider limiting the extent of any reservations they lodge to the Convention, to formulate any reservations as precisely and narrowly as possible and to review regularly any reservations made in respect of the provisions of the Convention, with a view to withdrawing them

Until these codes are adopted, instructions should be issued to ensure better protection of persons under detention.

Calling into question the reservations regime established under the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties would result in placing excessively narrow limits on the admissibility of reservations, parties' freedom of consent and the supplementary nature of reservations which, in the final analysis, was determined by the will of States.

... entering reservations with respect to all such articles as are in conflict with the provisions of Islamic law.

The Law emphasizes that work places shall be retained for those employees participating in a strike pursuant to the procedure prescribed by the Law.

An objection to a reservation was an element (together with acts of acceptance of the reservation) of the process of giving the reservation its legal effects.

The expected legal effects were those resulting from article 21, paragraph 3, of the Convention, namely that the provision subject to a reservation did not apply in the relations between the reserving State and the objecting State.

21. Urges States to limit the extent of any reservation they lodge to the Convention and to formulate any reservation as precisely and as narrowly as possible in order to ensure that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention, to review their reservations on a regular basis with a view to withdrawing them, and to withdraw reservations that are contrary to the object and purpose of the Convention

22. Urges States to limit the extent of any reservation they lodge to the Convention and to formulate any reservation as precisely and as narrowly as possible in order to ensure that no reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention, to review their reservations on a regular basis with a view to withdrawing them, and to withdraw reservations that are contrary to the object and purpose of the Convention

The Chairman then ruled that the format would remain as originally formulated.

The security forces were reported rarely to produce detainees before a magistrate, despite their being required by law to do so within 24 hours of detention.

3. Calls upon those States that continue to maintain reservations to the 1925 Geneva Protocol to withdraw those reservations

3. Calls upon those States that continue to maintain reservations to the 1925 Geneva Protocol to withdraw them

The observers for the Association for the Prevention of Torture and the International Commission of Jurists, while preferring no reservations, felt that, as an alternative, no reservations should be made to core articles.

If the prohibition on reservations applied only to certain articles, or, conversely, if reservations were authorized only for some provisions, the depositary must refuse such reservations as were not in accordance with the provisions of the treaty.

We have reservations about that approach.

One view was that paragraph (4) should be retained.

No reservations shall be made to the present Protocol.

A reservation is prohibited by the treaty if it contains a particular provision

3.1.4 Non specified reservations authorized by the treaty

Reservations should not be admissible to the protocol.

2. Calls upon those States that continue to maintain reservations to the 1925 Geneva Protocol to withdraw those reservations

The State of Qatar enter(s) a ... general reservation by the State of Qatar in respect of any provisions that conflict with the provisions of the Islamic Shariah.