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Article 137 - Ratification

from Section II - Final provisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

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Summary

Only a State’s consent to be bound by a treaty can give it obligatory forceand make it binding on that State. A State can express its consent to bebound by a treaty by different means, depending on the specific provisionsof the treaty in question.

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Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 , pp. 1965 - 1971
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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