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  1. Written agreement between two or more states.
  2. Treaties take effect either immediately on
  3. signature or, more often, on ratification.
  4. Ratification involves a further exchange of
  5. documents and usually takes place after the
  6. internal governments have approved the terms
  7. of the treaty. Treaties are binding in
  8. international law, the rules being laid down
  9. in the Vienna Convention on the Law of
  10. Treaties 1969.
  11.