12) وهذا النوع من الاعتبارات() هو ما جعل اللجنة ترى في استنتاجاتها الأولية لعام 1997 أنه بعد استخلاص نتائج عدم مشروعية تحفظ ما "يجوز للدولة مثلا أن تعدل تحفظها للتغلب على عدم المشروعية …"().
(12) Moreover, it was such considerations which led the Commission to state in its preliminary conclusions of 1997 that, in taking action on the inadmissibility of a reservation, the State may, for example, modify its reservation so as to eliminate the inadmissibility; obviously, this is possible only if it has the option of modifying the reservation by partially withdrawing it.