Practice question
What degree of impediment is central to Article 23 force majeure?
- Any increase in cost
- Any political embarrassment
- Material impossibility caused by the specified irresistible force or unforeseen event beyond State control
- A preference for another policy
- Any electoral inconvenience
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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