First, the document relied on seems to be the UK Command Paper – this doesn’t set out the legal text of the deal, it's a UK document setting out the benefits of the deal. 2/
Feb 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The statement in the Joint Political Declaration to the #WindsorFramework that "the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties ... applies to all international agreements including the Withdrawal
Agreement and its Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland" is very interesting.
The Vienna Convention applies to treaties between states (Art 1) and explicitly not treaties between states and international organisations (Art 3)