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I. Substantive International Law - First Part
5. THE UNITED NATIONS
5.7. Interpretation of the Charter

¤ Questions of Interpretation and Application
of the 1971 Montreal Convention Arising
from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie
(Libya v. United Kingdom) Preliminary
Objections, Judgment of 27 February 1998
I.C.J. Reports 1998, p. 9

[p. 61 S.O. Rezek ] 2. Article 103 of the Charter is a rule for settling conflicts between treaties: above all it postulates a conflict between the Charter of the United Nations and another treaty obligation. It settles the conflict in the Charter's favour, regardless of the chronology of the texts. However, it is 1 not designed to operate to the detriment of customary international law and even less so to the detriment of the general principles of the law of nations. Moreover, it is definitely the Charter of the United Nations (not a Security Council resolution, nor a General Assembly recommendation, nor a judgment of the International Court of Justice) which benefits from the primacy established in this norm: it is the Charter with the full significance of its principles, its system and the division of powers which it establishes.1

1See, mutatis mutandis, Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention Arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libya v. United States of America), Preliminary Objections, Judgment of 27 February 1998, I.C.J. Reports 1998, p. 115.