translate English to French: See also Giorgio Gaja, “Reservations to treaties and the newly independent States”, Italian Yearbook of International Law, 1975, pp. 54-56 (the author states, in particular: “The opinion that the predecessor State's reservations are maintained is also based on the reasonable assumption that when a newly independent State elects to become a party to a treaty by means of a notification of succession, in principle it wants the treaty to continue to be applied to its territory in the same way as it did before independence” (p. 55)); J. M. Ruda, “Reservations to treaties”, Recueil des cours: Collected Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law, vol. 146, 1975-III, p. 206 (“[…] the solution given by the ILC seems to be more acceptable, in the absence of any clear existing customary rule or practice, because it affords better protection for the interests of the successor State”); also, P. K. Menon, “The newly independent States and succession in respect of treaties”, in Korean Journal of Comparative Law, vol. 18, 1990, p. 152.
146, 1975-III, p.  206 (« […] the solution given by the ILC seems to be more acceptable, in the absence of any clear existing customary rule or practice, because it affords better protection for the interests of the successor State.  »); ainsi que P.  K. Menon, « The newly independent States and succession in respect of treaties », in Korean Journal of Comparative Law, vol.  18, 1990, p.