Vienna Convention

PART I.

INTRODUCTION

Article 1

Scope of the present Convention

The present Convention applies to treaties between States.

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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) "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.

2.The provisions of paragraph