AN OVERVIEW OF THE VIENNA CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF TREATIES AND ITS PRINCIPLES
AN OVERVIEW OF THE VIENNA CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF TREATIES AND ITS PRINCIPLES

Summary/Abstract: Treaties nowadays are the foundations for the creation of all relationsbetween subjects of international law and their role in international law has increasedprogressively recently. In its first meeting in 1946, the General Assembly of UN establisheda Committee for Progressive Development of International Law. The 1966 ViennaConvention entered into force on 27 January 1980 and has 114 member states. It hascreated an elastic system which has found the equilibrium among domestic interests and acommon international regulation. This Convention ensures sufficient freedom for states toadhere to treaties, but at the same time guarantees respect for the common standards intreaty-drafting. The reciprocity principle is central to every legal relation, but its importance ismore noticeable when it comes to treaties, because it is a guiding principle for each treaty.The Vienna Convention does not contain the reciprocity principle explicitly; however, itderives from the principle of equality of parties. The latter means that parties have equalrights and obligations in a treaty, which is a direct outcome of the principle of equality ofsovereignty.

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