249- وقال إن آراء الحكومات كانت، على قلتها، أساسية لدراسة الموضوع.
In this connection, the view was expressed that the topic was not ready for codification since it did not exist as a legal institution; according to this line of reasoning, unilateral acts only describe a sociological reality of informal interaction among States which sometimes leads them to be bound by their actions and it was therefore inappropriate to attempt to formally categorize such acts.