Practice question
An interpreter uses preparatory work as an automatic license to disregard clear treaty language, context and object and purpose. No Article 32 ambiguity, obscurity or manifestly absurd result is established. Which is best?
- Preparatory work always repeals the enacted treaty text
- Article 32 supplementary means do not displace the Article 31 framework merely by preference
- Any draft clause conclusively overrides the final agreement
- Only negotiating jokes determine obligations
- Interpretation has no governing legal method
Legal references
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties: https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf; Articles 31-33.
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