Practice question
Under VCLT Article 31, what is the basic approach to interpreting a treaty?
- Good faith, ordinary meaning in context and in light of object and purpose
- A single isolated word regardless of context
- Only the strongest State’s private wish
- Only a newspaper’s paraphrase
- Random choice among interpretations
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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