Article 2 Use of terms

1.

(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)

‘negotiating State’ means a State which took part in the drawing up and adoption of the text of the treaty;

(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)

‘party’ means a State which has consented to be bound by the treaty and for which the treaty is in force;

(h)

‘third State’ means a State not a party to the treaty;

(i)

‘international organization’ means an intergovernmental organization.

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