Practice question
An applicable circumstance precluding wrongfulness is established for a temporary disruption. When it ends, the State argues that Article 27 permanently extinguishes the obligation and forecloses even consideration of material-loss compensation. What is correct?
- Every temporary defense cancels the obligation permanently
- Article 27 preserves resumed compliance when the circumstance ends and leaves the material-loss compensation question without prejudice.
- Compensation is automatically impossible in every defense case
- The State may ignore the obligation forever
- Article 27 concerns only book publication
Legal references
- ILC Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (2001), Articles 20, 23, 26-27 and 35-39: https://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/draft_articles/9_6_2001.pdf
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