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to the NMT(s) in question. Such an exceptional step could be justified in this case because of the lengths to which the ILO Constitution goes to encourage application of ILO Conventions to

NMTS.

It has 13. As I say, this is only a possible line of argument. weaknesses, the main one being the absence, so far as I am aware, of any precedent: But, if, as a matter of policy, Departments wish to be able to preserve treaty obligations for an NMT in these circumstances, and if the ILO itself and the other Member States are prepared to accept such an express declaration, I would not rule it out on legal grounds.

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