translate English to French: C. Tomuschat gives a pertinent example: “If, for example, a convention on the protection of human rights prohibits in a `colonial clause' the exception of dependent territories from the territorial scope of the treaty, it would be absurd to suppose that consequently reservations of any kind, including those relating to the most elementary guarantees of individual freedom, are authorised, even if by these restrictions the treaty would be deprived of its very substance” (op. cit.
C. Tomuschat donne un exemple pertinent : « If, for example, a convention on the protection of human rights prohibits in a “colonial clause” the exception of dependent territories from the territorial scope of the treaty, it would be absurd to suppose that consequently reservations of any kind, including those relating to the most elementary guarantees of individual freedom, are authorised, even if by these restrictions the treaty would be deprived of its very substance » (op. cit.