Practice question
Two States sever diplomatic relations but continue to have a treaty obligation whose performance does not require those relations. One announces automatic treaty extinction solely from severance. Which is correct?
- Diplomatic rupture always terminates every legal relation
- Article 63 does not support automatic extinction on these facts
- Every treaty depends on an embassy by definition
- The other State’s consent is legally impossible afterward
- Only the embassy landlord determines treaty status
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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