Suchergebnisse

The commitment of the United States to its treaty obligations has recently been put in question by two persistent histories of treaty violation—the refusal to pay U.S. United Nations dues in full until the contentious and tenuous settlement of early 2001 and the repeated failure to advise alien prisoners of their rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Official advocacy of an antimissile defense system has also raised concern about the United States' continuing fidelity to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

The article is devoted to the doctrine and practice of the Law of Treaties. The author focuses his attention on the following four topics: 1. the Treaties and third States or third international organizations; 2. the Tre?aties that provide rights for third States or third international organizations; 3. the Treaties that set out obligations for third States or third international organizations. He pays special attention to the most-favoured-nation clau?se. The author gives interpretations of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969 and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations 1986.

The Draft Articles on the Law of Treaties completed in 1966 by the International Law Commission and submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations, on the basis of proposals by the Special Rapporteur, Sir Humphrey Waldock, contain, in Part VII (entitled "Depositaries, Notifications, Corrections and Registration"), three articles—Articles 71, 72 and 73—dealing directly with the depositary of an international treaty; and throughout the Draft Articles are to be found other provisions which directly or indirectly relate to the same institution of contemporary international law and relations.

The Secretary-General, for the purpose of setting out fundamental
principles and rules of international humanitarian law applicable to United
Nations forces conducting operations under United Nations command and
control, promulgates the following:
The fundamental principles and rules of international humanitarian law
set out in the present bulletin are applicable to United Nations forces when
in situations of armed conflict they are actively engaged therein as
combatants, to the extent and for the duration of their engagement.