Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties information
1978 international treaty
Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties
Parties
Signatories
Non-parties
Signed
August 23, 1978
Location
Vienna
Effective
November 6, 1996
Condition
15 ratifications
Parties
23[1]
Depositary
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Languages
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish
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Vienna Convention on Succession of States in respect of Treaties
States succession in respect of treaties (1978)
The Vienna Convention on Succession of States in Respect of Treaties is an international treaty opened for signature in 1978 to set rules on succession of states. It was adopted partly in response to the "profound transformation of the international community brought about by the decolonization process". It entered into force on 6 November 1996, which was triggered by the succession of the Republic of Macedonia to the treaty giving it the requisite 15 parties.[1]
The treaty has proven to be controversial largely because it distinguishes between "newly independent states" (a euphemism for former colonies) and "cases of separation of parts of a state" (a euphemism for all other new states).
Article 16 states that newly independent states receive a "clean slate", such that the new state does not inherit the treaty obligations of the colonial power, whereas article 34(1) states that all other new states remain bound by the treaty obligations of the state from which they separated. Moreover, article 17 states that newly independent states may join multilateral treaties to which their former colonizers were a party without the consent of the other parties in most circumstances, whereas article 9 states that all other new states may only join multilateral treaties to which their predecessor states were a part with the consent of the other parties.
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