Practice question
An indispensable object for treaty performance is only temporarily unavailable. Article 61 applies. Counsel invokes that temporary impossibility alone to terminate permanently. Which is correct?
- Temporary impossibility always erases the treaty permanently
- Any inconvenience automatically terminates every treaty
- Only a private donor determines impossibility
- No impossibility can ever matter
- Temporary impossibility may support suspension only under the stated Article 61 rule
Legal references
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf; Articles 54-55,61,63.
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