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Notes on Article 13
133. Article 13 provides alternative ways of dealing with the question of reservations to the Treaty. Either no reservations would be allowed, or reservations would be permitted in respect of provisions to be specified.
134. Opinions were divided during the fourth session of the Committee of Experts on the question of reservations. On the one hand, some delegations wished to allow for reservations. Other delegations, however, opposed the possibility of reservations on the basis that such a possibility would reduce the incentive to find a uniform consensus solution to all of the provisions of the Treaty. Moreover, an unlimited possibility of reservations might have the effect of enabling a Contracting Party to reduce its obligations under the Treaty to nothing.
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