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Treaties
Treaties are sometimes known as conventions, exchanges, agreements and protocols between
states. Specifically, treaty is not regarded as a source of law so much but as an obligation of by
the state under the law. Treaties are a binding agreement between states and the state has a
choice of deciding whether to become a party or not and hence there is no requirement of signing
up the treaty. The customary international law requires states to honor their treaties hence
treaties can be said to be sources of obligation under international law. Treaties are seen to be
very authoritative with statements from the customary law.
Most of the treaties that are freely negotiated between many states are often regarded as written
down what was previously unwritten from the rules of customary law. This is very obvious
where treaty provision is expected to be codified within existing laws. For example, the Vienna
Convention of the Law od Treaties entered in 1969. It is less than a half of the states in the world
which have entered into an agreement with the Vienna Convention and every court jurisdiction
has considered it as a matter with its main provisions and as codifying customary law. Therefore,
the treaty is treated applying law of Vienna Convention to all states that are signatories and those
that are not.