Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to the first edition by Sir Arthur Watts
- Preface to the second edition
- Articles of the Convention cited in the text
- Table of treaties
- Table of MOUs
- Table of cases
- Glossary of legal terms
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969
- 2 What is a treaty?
- 3 MOUs
- 4 Capacity to conclude treaties
- 5 Full powers
- 6 Adoption and authentication
- 7 Consent to be bound
- 8 Reservations
- 9 Entry into force
- 10 Treaties and domestic law
- 11 Territorial application
- 12 Successive treaties
- 13 Interpretation
- 14 Third states
- 15 Amendment
- 16 Duration and termination
- 17 Invalidity
- 18 The depositary
- 19 Registration and publication
- 20 Dispute settlement and remedies
- 21 Succession to treaties
- 22 International Organisations
- 23 Drafting and final clauses
- Appendices
- A Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969
- B Single instrument treaty
- C Single instrument MOU
- D Model single instrument MOU
- E Treaty constituted by an exchange of notes
- F Model exchange of notes recording an understanding
- G Treaty and MOU terminology: comparative table
- H Credentials
- I Full powers
- J General full powers
- K Final Act of the Vienna Conference
- L Instrument of ratification
- M Certificate of exchange of instruments of ratification
- N Model exchange of notes correcting an error
- O Procès-verbal of rectification
- P UN Registration Regulations
- Q List of overseas territories
- Index
L - Instrument of ratification
from Appendices
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword to the first edition by Sir Arthur Watts
- Preface to the second edition
- Articles of the Convention cited in the text
- Table of treaties
- Table of MOUs
- Table of cases
- Glossary of legal terms
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969
- 2 What is a treaty?
- 3 MOUs
- 4 Capacity to conclude treaties
- 5 Full powers
- 6 Adoption and authentication
- 7 Consent to be bound
- 8 Reservations
- 9 Entry into force
- 10 Treaties and domestic law
- 11 Territorial application
- 12 Successive treaties
- 13 Interpretation
- 14 Third states
- 15 Amendment
- 16 Duration and termination
- 17 Invalidity
- 18 The depositary
- 19 Registration and publication
- 20 Dispute settlement and remedies
- 21 Succession to treaties
- 22 International Organisations
- 23 Drafting and final clauses
- Appendices
- A Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969
- B Single instrument treaty
- C Single instrument MOU
- D Model single instrument MOU
- E Treaty constituted by an exchange of notes
- F Model exchange of notes recording an understanding
- G Treaty and MOU terminology: comparative table
- H Credentials
- I Full powers
- J General full powers
- K Final Act of the Vienna Conference
- L Instrument of ratification
- M Certificate of exchange of instruments of ratification
- N Model exchange of notes correcting an error
- O Procès-verbal of rectification
- P UN Registration Regulations
- Q List of overseas territories
- Index
Summary
WHEREAS a Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects was open for signature by all States at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from the Tenth day of April, One thousand Nine hundred and Eighty-one until the Tenth day of April, One thousand Nine hundred and Eighty-two;
AND WHEREAS the Convention was signed by the Government of the United Kingdom on the Tenth day of April, One thousand Nine hundred and Eighty-one;
NOW THEREFORE the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, having considered the Convention aforesaid, hereby confirm and ratify the same and undertake faithfully to perform and carry out all the stipulations therein contained, subject to the terms of the declaration contained in the accompanying Note.
In withness whereof this Instrument of Ratification is signed and sealed by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
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- Modern Treaty Law and Practice , pp. 503 - 504Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007