#11s2012: Vienna Convention on Succession of States in respect of Treaties (1978)

Vienna Convention on Succession of States in respect of Treaties (1978). Article 34.

Succession of States in cases of separation of parts of a State

1.When a part or parts of the territory of a State separate to form one or more States, whether or not the predecessor State continues to exist:

(a) any treaty in force at the date of the succession of States in respect of the entire territory of the predecessor State continues in force in respect of each successor State so formed;

(b) any treaty in force at the date of the succession of States in respect only of that part of the territory of the predecessor State which has become a successor State continues in force in respect of that successor State alone.

UNITED NATIONS.