3) ولم تناقش اللجنة هذا المشروع غير أن السير همفري والدوك، في تقريره الأول، ضمَّن مفهومه في مشروع المادة 17 المتعلقة ب‍ "حق إبداء التحفظات وسحبها"()، والتي تطرح مبدأ "الحق المطلق لكل دولة في سحب التحفظ انفراديا، حتى ولو قبلت هذا التحفظ دول أخرى"().
Although K. Yasseen considered that “an unnecessary additional condition [was thereby introduced] into a procedure which should be facilitated as much as possible”, the principle was unanimously adopted and it was decided to include this provision not in article 20 itself, but in article 23, which dealt with “Procedure regarding reservations” in general and was, as a result of the inclusion of this new paragraph 4, placed at the end of the section.