C. The distinction between bilateral and multilateral treaties

The former category includes mostly multilateral treaties.

Multilateral law making treaties

Many States were parties to a number of bilateral, regional and multilateral treaties and many provided lists of such treaties.

This approach shows that although many of the most resilient treaties are multilateral, one cannot assume that a multilateral treaty will always be more likely than a bilateral treaty to withstand armed conflict.

The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties provides the following rules on the interpretation of treaties, both bilateral and multilateral

Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General

A similar question arises when the distinction between bilateral and multilateral treaties is given prominence.

Treaty event

The Vienna regime applied to all multilateral treaties, including human rights treaties.

MULTILATERAL TREATIES DEPOSITED WITH THE SECRETARY GENERAL

Multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary General

Influence in the multilateral treaty making process

2. With regard to bilateral and multilateral treaties, the five States reported that they had signed a significant number of treaties concerning the protection of the environment, some of which contained penal provisions, and had implemented them in national legislation.

The Vienna Convention provides the following rules on the interpretation of treaties, both bilateral and multilateral

Rather than list the multilateral treaties which were to be applied again by the former enemy powers as the World War I peace treaties had done, the 1947 treaties made no mention of the prewar multilateral treaties. Ibid. at 322.

It would be helpful if LDCs could have further bilateral and multilateral treaties.

(c) Instruments for international cooperation, including bilateral and multilateral treaties and legislation to ensure their implementation, with a view to making them available to requesting Member States

Bilateral and multilateral conventions would consolidate the effects of international instruments aimed at preventing money laundering and investment of the proceeds of criminal activities.

Bilateral investment treaties and their relevance to a possible

2. States are invited to consider, if they have not yet done so, becoming parties to existing multilateral treaties, in particular those relevant to the progressive development of international law and its codification.

Tobin, The Termination of Multipartite Treaties, 1933, pp. 89 95.

Moreover, such categories as multilateral law making treaties should be made more specific.

Ibid. at 205 07 (noting the treaty's multilateral character).

Multilateral Treaties , vol. I, chap. IV.4, p. 192.

7. Urges Member States to use the Model Treaty on Extradition as a basis in developing treaty relations at the bilateral, regional or multilateral level, as appropriate

5. Invites Member States to take into account the Model Treaty in negotiating treaties at the bilateral, regional or multilateral level, as appropriate

Thirty six multilateral treaties had been adopted between 1951 and 2005.

Evidence of that is the 300 bilateral and multilateral treaties that accept the Court's jurisdiction in resolving disputes arising from the application or interpretation of those treaties.

7. Urges Member States to use the Model Treaty on Extradition as a basis in developing treaty relations at the bilateral, regional or multilateral level, as appropriate

My delegation therefore supports the early conclusion of a cut off treaty as it would complement and reinforce existing unilateral, bilateral and other multilateral nuclear disarmament mechanisms such as the NPT and the CTBT.

Modern practice regarding the length of treaty suspension no longer focuses on the distinction between bilateral and multilateral treaties.

Since 1951, the Conference has drawn up 36 multilateral treaties (conventions) in many areas of private international law.

It was sensible to say that war ended all treaties between belligerent states when most treaties were bilateral contract treaties' the rule has to be altered when many treaties are multilateral law making treaties', to which neutrals as well as belligerents are parties. Malanczuk, supra note 28, at 145 46.

(c) Signatures and ratifications for multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary General

9. States Parties shall consider concluding bilateral or multilateral treaties, agreements or arrangements to enhance the effectiveness of international cooperation undertaken pursuant to this article.

(ii) Non recurrent publications Summary of Practice of the Secretary General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties Treaty Event Annual Focus Book

For example, C. W. Jenks argued that i t is now generally admitted that war has not the same effect on multilateral legislative treaties as upon bilateral contractual ones. Similarly, Robert Tucker argued that

Multilateral treaties with neutral parties must clearly stand on a different footing from treaties between parties all of whom have been engaged in the war.

Furthermore, there was a need to increase bilateral and multilateral arrangements and agreements as called for under article 7 of that Convention.

Thus, although following both World Wars multilateral treaties were still viewed as more resilient than bilateral ones, an increased resilience of bilateral treaties was acknowledged.

First, more and more countries are concluding bilateral investment treaties.

This difficulty also exists in regard to multilateral treaties and conventions, but it is much less serious, as it is usually fairly obvious on the face of the multilateral treaty or convention concerned what the effect of the outbreak of war will have been on it.

The main multilateral treaty referred to was the 1972 European Convention on the Transfer of Proceedings in Criminal Matters.

Such an obligation was already imposed on States parties to the multilateral conventions identified in article 1.