ABSTRACT
After explaining in Chapter 5 how Palestine as a controversial entity in international law has been accepted as a State in many multilateral treaties, Chapter 6 turns to examine the legal consequences of Palestine’s accession to multilateral treaties in terms of: (1) treaty relationships between Palestine and other State Parties (silent States and opposing States); (2) the recent dispute settlements—Palestine’s ICJ case against the United States on the relocation of the United States embassy to Jerusalem under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and Palestine’s inter-State complaint against Israel on alleged violations of International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; and (3) acting like a State—substantive functions, asserting national rights over the Palestinian territory and procedural functions, participating in multilateral treaty conferences Palestine acceded to, and submitting national reports.
