My delegation doubts that this is the desired and intended result. Of course, Austria is well aware that the problem of the reciprocal effect must, in any case, be discussed in detail sooner or later, since reservations to so-called normative treaties or, in particular, to human right treaties have their particularities in this regard. In the context of such discussions the problem of the legal effect of declarations addressed by guideline 1.1.8 could also be taken up. The Special Rapporteur does not regard such statements as reservations. However, my delegation has certain doubts as to whether a negative definition, i.e. an enumeration of acts which do not fall within the ambit of the definition itself, is helpful in this case.
Positive definitions can suffer from additional negative descriptions.
Hence, we do not know what impact these examples might have on the general definition. We are obviously facing a deductive approach combined which a phenomenological one, without any explanation being given as to the relation between both. 1.7.1 Alternatives to reservations . My delegation is not convinced of the necessity to deal with this matter in the context of reservations. The issue would seem to deserve to be treated separately simply because the guideline explicitly states that alternatives and other declarations do not fall under the item of reservations .