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- A treaty the invalidity of which is established under the present Convention is void. The provisions of a void treaty have no legal force.
- 2
- If acts have nevertheless been performed in reliance on such a treaty:
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- (a)each party may require any other party to establish as far as possible in their mutual relations the position that would have existed if the acts had not been performed;
- (b)acts performed in good faith before the invalidity was invoked are not rendered unlawful by reason only of the invalidity of the treaty.
- 3
- In cases falling under articles 49, 50, 51 or 52, paragraph 2 does not apply with respect to the party to which the fraud, the act of corruption or the coercion is imputable.
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- In the case of the invalidity of a particular State's consent to be bound by a multilateral treaty, the foregoing rules apply in the relations between that State and the parties to the treaty.
