ويترتب على سحب تحفظ دخول المعاهدة حيز النفاذ في العلاقات بين الدولة أو المنظمة الدولية التي سحبت التحفظ والدولة أو المنظمة الدولية التي كانت قد اعترضت على التحفظ وعلى دخول المعاهدة حيز النفاذ بينها وبين الطرف المتحفظ بسبب هذا التحفظ.
(2) The question of the withdrawal of reservations did not attract the attention of Special Rapporteurs on the law of treaties until fairly recently and even then only to a limited degree. J.L. Brierly and Sir Hersch Lauterpacht were preoccupied with admissibility of reservation and did not devote a single draft article to the question of the criterion for the withdrawal of reservations. It was not until 1956 that, in his first report, Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice proposed the following wording for draft article 40, paragraph 3: