it purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain provisions of

the treaty in their application to that State or to that organization;

e) "negotiating State" and "negotiating organization" mean respectively:

i) a State, or

ii) an intemational organization,

which took part in the drawing up and adoption of the text of the treaty;

j) "contracting State" and "contracting organization" mean respectively:

i) a State, or

ii) an intemational organization,

which has consented to be bound by the treaty, whether or not the treaty

has entered into force;

g) "party'' means a State or an intemational organization which has consented

to be bound by the treaty and for which the treaty is in force;

h) "third State" and "third organization" mean respectively:

i) a State, or

ii) an intemational organization,

not a party to the treaty;

i) "intemational organization" means an intergovemmental organization;

j) "rules of the organization" means, in particular, the constituent instruments,

decisions and resolutions adopted in accordance with them, and established

practice of the organization.

2. The provisions of paragraph 1 regarding the use of terms in the present Convention

are without prejudice to the use ofthose terms or to the meanings which may be given

to them in the internai law of any State or in the rules of any intemational organization.

Article 3

International agreements not within the scope of the present Convention

The fact that the present Convention does not apply:

i) to intemational agreements to which one or more States, one or more

intemational organizations and one or more subjects of intemational

law other than States or organizations are parties;

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