ARTICLE XV

DURATION AND WITHDRAWAL

1. This Protocol shall remain in force so long as the Convention is in force.

2. Each State Party to this Protocol shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this Protocol if it decides that extraordinary events, related to the subject matter of this Protocol, have jeopardized its supreme interests. It shall give notice of such withdrawal to [the Depositary/ies] all other States Parties to the Protocol, the Executive Council and the United Nations Security Council [3] months in advance. Such notice shall include a statement of the extraordinary events it regards as having jeopardized its supreme interests.

3. The withdrawal of a State Party from this Protocol shall not in any way affect its rights and obligations under other international legal instruments to which it is a party.

4. Any State Party that withdraws from the Convention shall be deemed to have withdrawn from this Protocol, irrespective of whether it has complied with the procedure set forth in paragraph 2 of this Article. The Protocol shall cease to be in force for such a State on the same day as the Convention ceases to be in force for it.

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