ABSTRACT
An armistice agreement implies only the provisional suspension of hostilities and constitutes thus merely either a brief cessation of fighting on the battlefield or the prologue to the very end of a war. Occasionally, the operation of treaties have not come into operation until a date after the actual end of hostilities, and a point such as the repatriation of prisoners of war, or the cessation of functions of UN forces, has been chosen. Special national announcements often clarify when war will no longer affect private law transactions of individuals. A Draft Resolution was put forward in 1981 by which treaties between belligerents and third States would remain in force in their mutual relations, whereas multilateral treaties binding parties to an armed conflict would be suspended if there is such a fundamental change of circumstances that the performance of the treaty would be unduly hampered.
