The End of an International Treaty

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THE END OF AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY Floroiu Mihai* Abstract Treaties normally cease under their own arrangements. The end of a treaty can result either from special agreements of the parties, from legal developments outside or within the Treaty or even procedural aspects (execution, arrival to legal term, disappearance of initial circumstances, impossibility of performance or material breach of the Treaty). Key-words : international treaty, Vienna Convention of 1969 The initial concept and law of the international treaties was customary for the most part of the past, but major achievements have been made when all those disparate rules were codified by the Vienna Convention of 1969 on the Law of International Treaties, which entered into force in January 1980. Based on this Convention’s dispositions, we could define the treaty as an international written agreement, whether embodied in a single instrument or more related instruments and whatever its name is, concluded between two or more States or other subjects of law International and governed by international law, meant for them to set obligations and recognize reciprocally rights, in order to rule over their respective international relations. Stages of the life of a treaty depend largely on the willingness of member States attitude towards them, but, in order for them to be as useful for the international society as they are meant to (based on the fact that, due to specific configuration of the international society, the treaty is the main tool through which international law is set), there must be some specific conditions ruling the end of those instruments. There are two main causes for terminating a treaty. One is related to the quality of the consent and will not make the object of the present study and the other will be related to all other causes of termination. It will therefore
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