Secret treaty
A secret treaty is a treaty under international law between two states that is kept secret. Such secret contracts are customary, especially as alliance contracts in the event of war. Often they also consist of secret additional agreements to existing contracts. Secret treaties were common especially in the period of imperialism . Since they were believed to have contributed to the outbreak of World War I , Woodrow Wilson called for a ban on secret diplomacy in his 14-point program .
The United Nations provides for the registration of international treaties. If they are not registered with her, they will not be recognized by her or by the International Court of Justice .
Well-known examples of secret contracts are the secret additional protocol of the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939, which provided for the partition of Poland , and the German-Russian reinsurance treaty of 1887. Less known and also far less problematic was the four-power agreement on intelligence cooperation between the USA , Great Britain , Canada and Australia from 1956.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Paulmann : Diplomacy. In: Jost Dülffer , Wilfried Loth (Ed.): Dimensions of international history (= studies on international history. Vol. 30). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71260-5 , pp. 47–64, here p. 53, ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ^ German Bundestag, weekly newspaper "Das Parlament" ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
