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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
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1 The Obligation of the Parties to Give Effect to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 73 AJIL 462 (1979).
2 Message from the President of the United States, transmitting four treaties pertaining to human rights, S. Exec. Docs. C, D, E, and F, 95th Cong., 2d Sess. (1978).
3 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Art. 19; Reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, [1951] ICJ Rep. 15.
4 Art. 27, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Prof. Schachter cites Article 2 of the Covenant which requires parties to take necessary steps to implement its provisions. The Covenant nowhere suggests, however, that the rights specified cannot be modified by reservation.