ASSIGNMENT 7 INTERNATIONA TREATY

Give examples of treaty with termination and suspension clause

a. Bilateral :
The Hungary-Turkey BIT (1992) states,
In Article 11(2): Unless notice of termination has been given by
either Contracting Party at least six months before the date of
expiry of its validity, the present Agreement shall be extended
tacitly for periods of 10 years, each Contracting Party reserving
the right to terminate the Agreement upon notice at any time
after the termination at the 15 year period.
b. Multilateral
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, provides for the termination of
certain earlier treaties in the narcotics field as between parties to the Single
Convention.
In Article 44: Termination of Previous International Treaties
1. The provisions of this Convention, upon its coming into force,
shall, as between Parties hereto, terminate and replace the
provisions of the following treaties:
(a) International Opium Convention, signed at The Hague on 23
January 1912;
(b) Agreement concerning the Manufacture of, Internal Trade in and
Use of Prepared Opium, signed at Geneva on 11 February 1925;
(c) International Opium Convention, signed at Geneva on 19
February 1925;
(d) Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the
Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, signed at Geneva on 13 July 1931;
(e) Agreement for the Control of Opium Smoking in the Far East,
signed at Bangkok on 27 November 1931;
(f) Protocol signed at Lake Success on 11 December 1946, amending
the Agreements, Conventions and Protocols on Narcotic Drugs
concluded at The Hague on 23 January 1912, at Geneva on 11
February 1925 and 19 February 1925 and 13 July 1931, at Bangkok
on 27 November 1931 and at Geneva on 26 June 1936, except as it
affects the last-named Convention;
(g) The Conventions and the Agreements referred to in
subparagraphs (a) to (e) as amended by the Protocol of 1946
referred to in subparagraph (f);

(h) Protocol signed at Paris on 19 November 1948 Bringing under

International Control Drugs outside the Scope of the Convention of
13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the
Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as Amended by the Protocol signed at
Lake Success on 11 December 1946;
(i) Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy
Plant, the Production of, International and
Wholesale Trade in, and Use of Opium, signed at New York on 23
June 1953, should that Protocol have come into force.

Convention for the Suppression of the Illicit Traffic in Dangerous

Drugs, signed at Geneva on 26 June 1936, Article 9
Shall, between the Parties thereto which are also Parties to this
Convention, be terminated, and shall be replaced by paragraph 2(b)
of article 36 of this Convention; provided that such a Party may by
notification to the Secretary-General continue in force

Example of treaty without termination clause

(often the case with human rights and environmental treaties. )

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,

1948.

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