وبصرف النظر عن الافتراضات التي بموجبها يستبعد شرط صريح في معاهدة تطبيق المبدأ الذي يرسيه هذا النص، فإن ذلك يسري في الحالتين المذكورتين هنا حيث يجوز لصاحب التحفظ أن ينفرد بتحديد تاريخ نفاذ السحب.
That note makes a distinction between “a modification of an existing reservation” and “a partial withdrawal thereof”. In the case of the second type of communication, “the Legal Counsel shares the concerns expressed by the Permanent Representative that it is highly desirable that, as far as possible, communications which are no more than partial withdrawals of reservations should not be subjected to the procedure that is appropriate for modifications of reservations”.