CC Suspends Decision to Lift Reservation to Article 27 of the Vienna Convention

The Government of Guatemala issued the Government Agreement 65-2025, with which it withdrew the reservation to article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (CVDT). According to the official communiqué, this decision seeks to align national legislation with international standards and with the provisions of article 149 of the Constitution. The measure also responds to previous criteria of the Constitutional Court (CC). The Executive…

The Constitutional Court (CC) granted provisional protection that suspends the Government Agreement 65-2025, with which the Government of Bernardo Arévalo had formalized the withdrawal of the reservation to article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. In a communiqué, the CC recalled that Guatemala had formulated an interpretative reservation to article 27 in 1997, in order to reaffirm to the international community that the Polit…